BIOLOGIST

Armen Takhtajan

1910 - 2009

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Armen Leonovich Takhtajan or Takhtajian (Armenian: Արմեն Լևոնի Թախտաջյան; Russian: Армен Леонович Тахтаджян; pronounced takh-tuh-JAHN; 10 June 1910 – 13 November 2009), was a Soviet-Armenian botanist, one of the most important figures in 20th century plant evolution and systematics and biogeography. His other interests included morphology of flowering plants, paleobotany, and the flora of the Caucasus. He was one of the most influential taxonomists of the latter twentieth century. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Armen Takhtajan is the 294th most popular biologist (up from 325th in 2019). (up from 1,750th in 2019)

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Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, Armen Takhtajan ranks 294 out of 1,097. Before him are Michael W. Young, Odoardo Beccari, Johann Jakob von Tschudi, Lorenz Oken, Otto Brunfels, and Jean Cabanis. After him are Juliane Koepcke, Peter Medawar, George Bentham, Wilbur Scoville, Luigi Luca Cavalli-Sforza, and Friedrich Anton Wilhelm Miquel.

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Among people born in 1910, Armen Takhtajan ranks 94. Before him are Chico Xavier, Masayoshi Ōhira, Nguyễn Hữu Thọ, Julien Gracq, Ngô Đình Nhu, and He Zizhen. After him are Sergey Gorshkov, J. Allen Hynek, Irmfried Eberl, Miguel Hernández, David Rose, and Remo Giazotto. Among people deceased in 2009, Armen Takhtajan ranks 88. Before him are Qian Xuesen, Edward T. Hall, Kim Peek, Augusto Boal, Glenn Davis, and James Whitmore. After him are Philip José Farmer, Andrew Wyeth, Félix Malloum, Shih Kien, Alicia de Larrocha, and Pavle, Serbian Patriarch.

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