BIOLOGIST

Armand David

1826 - 1900

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Armand David, CM (7 September 1826, Espelette – 10 November 1900, Paris) was a Lazarist missionary Catholic priest as well as a zoologist and a botanist from the French Basque Country. Several species, such as Père David's deer, are named after him — Père David being French for Father David. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Armand David is the 186th most popular biologist (down from 185th in 2019), the 1,304th most popular biography from France (up from 1,596th in 2019) and the 26th most popular French Biologist.

Armand David was a French missionary and naturalist who traveled to China in the late 1800s. He is most famous for his discovery of the giant panda, which he named Ailuropoda melanoleuca.

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Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, Armand David ranks 186 out of 1,097. Before him are Ludwig von Bertalanffy, Carl Woese, Giovanni Sartori, Johann Karl Wilhelm Illiger, Charles Bonnet, and Paul Greengard. After him are Martinus Beijerinck, Anna Atkins, Julius Richard Petri, Julian Huxley, Emmanuelle Charpentier, and Alexander Georg von Bunge.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1826, Armand David ranks 10. Before him are Eugénie de Montijo, Gustave Moreau, Cetshwayo kaMpande, Wilhelm Liebknecht, Ludwig Minkus, and Stanislao Cannizzaro. After him are Frederick I, Grand Duke of Baden, Danilo I, Prince of Montenegro, Mikhail Saltykov-Shchedrin, Alexander Afanasyev, Georg II, Duke of Saxe-Meiningen, and Zénobe Gramme. Among people deceased in 1900, Armand David ranks 20. Before him are Emil Škoda, Joseph Bertrand, Nicolas Chauvin, Robert Luther, Osman Nuri Pasha, and William Armstrong, 1st Baron Armstrong. After him are François d'Orléans, Prince of Joinville, Francis, Duke of Teck, Mary Kingsley, Isaac Levitan, Naim Frashëri, and Zdeněk Fibich.

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In France

Among people born in France, Armand David ranks 1,304 out of 6,770. Before him are Georges Prêtre (1924), Gustave Charpentier (1860), André Weil (1906), John III of Navarre (1477), Elif Shafak (1971), and Philip, Duke of Orléans (1336). After him are Alain-Fournier (1886), Henri Désiré Landru (1869), Maurice Thorez (1900), Adela of France (1009), Raymond VII, Count of Toulouse (1197), and Jean-Jacques Sempé (1932).

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Among BIOLOGISTS In France

Among biologists born in France, Armand David ranks 26. Before him are Joseph Pitton de Tournefort (1656), Aimé Bonpland (1773), Félix d'Herelle (1873), Bernard Germain de Lacépède (1756), Mathurin Jacques Brisson (1723), and Antoine-Augustin Parmentier (1737). After him are Emmanuelle Charpentier (1968), Michel Adanson (1727), Alphonse Pyramus de Candolle (1806), Anselme Gaëtan Desmarest (1784), Henri Marie Ducrotay de Blainville (1777), and Frédéric Cuvier (1773).

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