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Antoine Risso

1777 - 1845

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Giuseppe Antonio Risso (8 April 1777 – 25 August 1845), called Antoine Risso, was a naturalist from Nice. Risso was born in the city of Nice in the Duchy of Savoy, and studied under Giovanni Battista Balbis. He published Ichthyologie de Nice (1810), Histoire naturelle de l'Europe méridionale (1826) and Histoire Naturelle des Orangers (1818–1822). Risso's dolphin was named after him. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Antoine Risso is the 601st most popular biologist (down from 591st in 2019), the 3,644th most popular biography from France (up from 3,930th in 2019) and the 85th most popular French Biologist.

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Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, Antoine Risso ranks 601 out of 1,097. Before him are Carl-Gustaf Rossby, Tsuneko Okazaki, John Murray, Francisco J. Ayala, George Clifford III, and Ruth Arnon. After him are Otto Stapf, Władysław Taczanowski, Jon E. Ahlquist, Edmond de Sélys Longchamps, Jules Émile Planchon, and Adrien René Franchet.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1777, Antoine Risso ranks 37. Before him are William Brown, Heinrich Marx, Casimir Pierre Périer, Marie Jules César Savigny, Heinrich Rudolf Schinz, and Louis Hersent. After him are Carlos Anaya, Juan Martín de Pueyrredón, Luis María de Borbón y Vallabriga, Roger B. Taney, William Martin Leake, and Thomas Campbell. Among people deceased in 1845, Antoine Risso ranks 31. Before him are Henrik Steffens, Rafael Urdaneta, Heinrich von Bellegarde, Amédée Louis Michel le Peletier, comte de Saint-Fargeau, Vincent-Marie Viénot, Count of Vaublanc, and Christian Frederik Hansen. After him are Matvei Gedenshtrom, Johnny Appleseed, Elizabeth Fry, Gregor MacGregor, Philipp Jakob Cretzschmar, and Karl Julius Perleb.

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In France

Among people born in France, Antoine Risso ranks 3,644 out of 6,770. Before him are Patachou (1918), Eugène-Anatole Demarçay (1852), Geoffrey II, Count of Gâtinais (1000), Charles Jean Marie Barbaroux (1767), Pierre Fatou (1878), and Nicolas Mignard (1606). After him are Ferdinand Brunetière (1849), Jean-Baptiste Du Halde (1674), Charles Dancla (1817), Christian Marin (1929), Marc Riboud (1923), and Henri Laurent (1881).

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Among BIOLOGISTS In France

Among biologists born in France, Antoine Risso ranks 85. Before him are Henri Cassini (1781), Charles Antoine Lemaire (1800), Augustin Saint-Hilaire (1779), Philippe Édouard Léon Van Tieghem (1839), Jean Baptiste Boisduval (1799), and Jean Louis Armand de Quatrefages de Bréau (1810). After him are Edmond de Sélys Longchamps (1813), Jules Émile Planchon (1823), Adrien René Franchet (1834), Émile Duclaux (1840), Émile Oustalet (1844), and Étienne Pierre Ventenat (1757).

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