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Carl Correns

1864 - 1933

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Carl Erich Correns (19 September 1864 – 14 February 1933) was a German botanist and geneticist notable primarily for his independent discovery of the principles of heredity, which he achieved simultaneously but independently of the botanist Hugo de Vries, and for his acknowledgment of Gregor Mendel's earlier paper on that subject. Correns was a student of Karl Nägeli, a renowned botanist with whom Mendel corresponded about his work with peas, and who subsequently engaged in a brief exchange of letters concerning reproducibility of the results in another species (Hieracium). Because of the special properties of Hieracium, those experiments failed and Mendel dropped his studies on the subject. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Carl Correns is the 242nd most popular biologist (up from 245th in 2019), the 1,601st most popular biography from Germany (up from 1,942nd in 2019) and the 35th most popular German Biologist.

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Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, Carl Correns ranks 242 out of 1,097. Before him are Theodor Escherich, Rudolf Vrba, J. B. S. Haldane, Johann Friedrich von Brandt, Thomas Browne, and John du Pont. After him are Pieter Boddaert, Joseph Gerhard Zuccarini, John Lindley, William Aiton, Henri Marie Ducrotay de Blainville, and H. Robert Horvitz.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1864, Carl Correns ranks 54. Before him are Kikunae Ikeda, Ethel Voynich, Qi Baishi, Hermann Weingärtner, Margaret Macdonald Mackintosh, and Joseph Bédier. After him are Henri de Régnier, Alfred Stieglitz, Roman Dmowski, Robert Grant Aitken, Mizzi Kaspar, and Ahmed Izzet Pasha. Among people deceased in 1933, Carl Correns ranks 31. Before him are Grand Duke Alexander Mikhailovich of Russia, Erik Jan Hanussen, Prince Luigi Amedeo, Duke of the Abruzzi, Kenji Miyazawa, Margaret Macdonald Mackintosh, and Anna de Noailles. After him are Henry Royce, Archduke Charles Stephen of Austria, Albert Calmette, Francesc Macià, Hans Vaihinger, and Pierre Paul Émile Roux.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Carl Correns ranks 1,601 out of 7,253. Before him are Pascual Jordan (1902), Johann Arndt (1555), Duchess Marie Gabrielle in Bavaria (1878), Kurt Franz (1914), Otto Wels (1873), and Rudi Dutschke (1940). After him are Richard Glücks (1889), Méret Oppenheim (1913), Gustav Landauer (1870), Wolf Vostell (1932), Friedrich Wetter (1928), and Karl Korsch (1886).

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Among BIOLOGISTS In Germany

Among biologists born in Germany, Carl Correns ranks 35. Before him are Bert Sakmann (1942), Carl Friedrich Philipp von Martius (1794), August Grisebach (1814), Albert Günther (1830), Theodor Escherich (1857), and Johann Friedrich von Brandt (1802). After him are Joseph Gerhard Zuccarini (1797), Johann Gottlob Theaenus Schneider (1750), Johann Baptist von Spix (1781), Johann Heinrich Friedrich Link (1767), Carl Sigismund Kunth (1788), and Friedrich Parrot (1791).

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