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Carl Nägeli

1817 - 1891

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Carl Wilhelm von Nägeli (26 or 27 March 1817 – 10 May 1891) was a Swiss botanist. He studied cell division and pollination but became known as the man who discouraged Gregor Mendel from further work on genetics. He rejected natural selection as a mechanism of evolution, favouring orthogenesis driven by a supposed "inner perfecting principle". Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Carl Nägeli is the 124th most popular biologist (up from 296th in 2019), the 84th most popular biography from Switzerland (up from 227th in 2019) and the 5th most popular Swiss Biologist.

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Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, Carl Nägeli ranks 124 out of 1,097. Before him are Ferdinand Cohn, James Edward Smith, Sylvia Earle, Carl Peter Thunberg, John Hopfield, and Erasmus Darwin. After him are Hans Christian Gram, Robert Whittaker, Nikolaus Joseph von Jacquin, Hamilton O. Smith, Sam Harris, and Reginald Innes Pocock.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1817, Carl Nägeli ranks 11. Before him are William III of the Netherlands, Syed Ahmad Khan, Louise of Hesse-Kassel, Adolphe, Grand Duke of Luxembourg, Charles-François Daubigny, and Charles Adolphe Wurtz. After him are Archduke Albrecht, Duke of Teschen, Niels Gade, Joseph Dalton Hooker, Aleksey Konstantinovich Tolstoy, Princess Clémentine of Orléans, and Theodor Storm. Among people deceased in 1891, Carl Nägeli ranks 22. Before him are Leopold Kronecker, Ivan Goncharov, Jules Grévy, Prince Napoléon Bonaparte, Franz Miklosich, and Princess Alexandra of Greece and Denmark. After him are Charles I of Württemberg, Albert Pike, Jan Neruda, Édouard Lucas, Georges Ernest Boulanger, and N. R. Pogson.

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In Switzerland

Among people born in Switzerland, Carl Nägeli ranks 84 out of 1,015. Before him are Peter Zumthor (1943), Félix Vallotton (1865), Roger Federer (1981), Niklaus Wirth (1934), Mario Botta (1943), and H. R. Giger (1940). After him are Margareta of Romania (1949), Rolf M. Zinkernagel (1944), Gaspard Bauhin (1560), Ernest Bloch (1880), Alfred Cortot (1877), and Johann Jakob Bachofen (1815).

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Among BIOLOGISTS In Switzerland

Among biologists born in Switzerland, Carl Nägeli ranks 5. Before him are Conrad Gessner (1516), Daniel Bovet (1907), Augustin Pyramus de Candolle (1778), and Werner Arber (1929). After him are 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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