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Augustin Pyramus de Candolle

1778 - 1841

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Augustin Pyramus (or Pyrame) de Candolle (UK: , US: , French: [kɑ̃dɔl]; 4 February 1778 – 9 September 1841) was a Swiss botanist. René Louiche Desfontaines launched de Candolle's botanical career by recommending him at a herbarium. Within a couple of years de Candolle had established a new genus, and he went on to document hundreds of plant families and create a new natural plant classification system. Although de Candolle's main focus was botany, he also contributed to related fields such as phytogeography, agronomy, paleontology, medical botany, and economic botany. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Augustin Pyramus de Candolle is the 66th most popular biologist (up from 75th in 2019), the 52nd most popular biography from Switzerland (up from 75th in 2019) and the 3rd most popular Swiss Biologist.

Augustin Pyramus de Candolle is most famous for his work on plant taxonomy.

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Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, Augustin Pyramus de Candolle ranks 66 out of 1,097. Before him are René Antoine Ferchault de Réaumur, Jean Dausset, Gregory Winter, Linda B. Buck, Daniel Bovet, and Hugo de Vries. After him are Hugo Theorell, Dian Fossey, George Shaw, Adelbert von Chamisso, Günter Blobel, and Antoine Laurent de Jussieu.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1778, Augustin Pyramus de Candolle ranks 9. Before him are Louis Bonaparte, Gustav IV Adolf of Sweden, Humphry Davy, José de San Martín, Johann Nepomuk Hummel, and Fabian Gottlieb von Bellingshausen. After him are Giovanni Battista Belzoni, Bernardo O'Higgins, Clemens Brentano, Coenraad Jacob Temminck, Fernando Sor, and Charles Ferdinand, Duke of Berry. Among people deceased in 1841, Augustin Pyramus de Candolle ranks 6. Before him are Nicolas Appert, Johann Friedrich Herbart, Mikhail Lermontov, William Henry Harrison, and Karl Friedrich Schinkel. After him are Caroline of Baden, George Green, Claude Victor-Perrin, Duc de Belluno, Friedrich Sertürner, Johan August Arfwedson, and Félix Savart.

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In Switzerland

Among people born in Switzerland, Augustin Pyramus de Candolle ranks 52 out of 1,015. Before him are Albert II, Duke of Austria (1298), Adelaide of Italy (931), Eugen Bleuler (1857), Lys Assia (1924), Daniel Bovet (1907), and Robert Walser (1878). After him are Elisabeth Kübler-Ross (1926), Ursula Andress (1936), Walter Rudolf Hess (1881), Angelica Kauffman (1741), Richard R. Ernst (1933), and Henry Fuseli (1741).

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Among BIOLOGISTS In Switzerland

Among biologists born in Switzerland, Augustin Pyramus de Candolle ranks 3. Before him are Conrad Gessner (1516), and Daniel Bovet (1907). After him are Werner Arber (1929), Carl Nägeli (1817), Gaspard Bauhin (1560), Louis Agassiz (1807), Alexander Agassiz (1835), Charles Bonnet (1720), Jakob Friedrich Ehrhart (1742), Albert von Kölliker (1817), and Johann Jakob von Tschudi (1818).

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