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Antoine Nicolas Duchesne

1747 - 1827

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Antoine Nicolas Duchesne (born 7 October 1747 Versailles; died 18 February 1827 Paris) was a French botanist known for his keen observation of variation within species, and for demonstrating that species are not immutable, because mutations can occur. "As Duchesne's observations were unaided by knowledge of modern concepts of genetics and molecular biology, his insight was truly remarkable." His particular interests were in strawberries and gourds. Duchesne worked in the gardens of Versailles, where he was a student of Bernard de Jussieu and corresponded with Carl Linnaeus. He established a notable collection of strawberries in the botanical garden of the Petit Trianon and was the first to document the separation of sexes in wild strawberry and the hybrid origin of the garden strawberry. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Antoine Nicolas Duchesne is the 254th most popular engineer (down from 226th in 2019), the 4,093rd most popular biography from France (down from 3,719th in 2019) and the 48th most popular French Engineer.

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Among engineers, Antoine Nicolas Duchesne ranks 254 out of 389. Before her are Sergey Chaplygin, Hans Moravec, Léon Serpollet, Brian McGuire, Waloddi Weibull, and Louis Pouzin. After her are Mikhail Simonov, Marcel Deprez, Walter Thiel, Ransom E. Olds, Gioacchino Colombo, and Sam Eyde.

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Among people born in 1747, Antoine Nicolas Duchesne ranks 26. Before her are Heinrich XIII, Prince Reuss of Greiz, Grigory Shelikhov, Timothy Dexter, John Paul Jones, Barthélemy Louis Joseph Schérer, and Alexander Bezborodko. After her are Eugenio Espejo, Iolo Morganwg, Benjamin Vulliamy, György Bessenyei, and Samuel Osgood. Among people deceased in 1827, Antoine Nicolas Duchesne ranks 32. Before her are Countess Friederike von Schlieben, Pōmare III, Johann Gottfried Eichhorn, Hugh Clapperton, János Bihari, and François Fournier-Sarlovèze. After her are José Joaquín Fernández de Lizardi, Henry Salt, Charles Willson Peale, Rufus King, and Israel Pickens.

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In France

Among people born in France, Antoine Nicolas Duchesne ranks 4,093 out of 6,770. Before her are Guy Lapébie (1916), Vincent Candela (1973), Dany Dauberson (1925), Alain Calmat (1940), Charles Dupin (1784), and Louis Pouzin (1931). After her are Lily Pons (1898), Roger Beaufrand (1908), François de Troy (1645), Caroline Rémy de Guebhard (1855), Pierre Marie (1853), and Philibert of Jumièges (608).

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Among ENGINEERS In France

Among engineers born in France, Antoine Nicolas Duchesne ranks 48. Before her are Benoît Fourneyron (1802), René Panhard (1841), Eugène Flachat (1802), Louis Vicat (1786), Léon Serpollet (1858), and Louis Pouzin (1931). After her are Marcel Deprez (1843), Ernest Goüin (1815), Albert Auguste Perdonnet (1801), Jean-Augustin Barral (1819), Émile Lemoine (1840), and Pierre-François Bouchard (1771).

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