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Charles Bonnet

1720 - 1793

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Charles Bonnet (French: [ʃaʁl bɔnɛ]; 13 March 1720 – 20 May 1793) was a Genevan naturalist and philosophical writer. He is responsible for coining the term phyllotaxis to describe the arrangement of leaves on a plant. He was among the first to notice parthenogenetic reproduction in aphids and established that insects respired through their spiracles. He was among the first to use the term "evolution" in a biological context. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Charles Bonnet is the 184th most popular biologist (down from 161st in 2019), the 117th most popular biography from Switzerland (up from 121st in 2019) and the 9th most popular Swiss Biologist.

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Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, Charles Bonnet ranks 184 out of 1,097. Before him are Adam Afzelius, Antoine-Augustin Parmentier, Ludwig von Bertalanffy, Carl Woese, Giovanni Sartori, and Johann Karl Wilhelm Illiger. After him are Paul Greengard, Armand David, Martinus Beijerinck, Anna Atkins, Julius Richard Petri, and Julian Huxley.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1720, Charles Bonnet ranks 11. Before him are Carlo Gozzi, Philip, Duke of Parma, Emperor Sakuramachi, Anna Maria Mozart, Louisa Ulrika of Prussia, and Honoré III, Prince of Monaco. After him are Vilna Gaon, James Hargreaves, Heraclius II of Georgia, William Cavendish, 4th Duke of Devonshire, Balaji Baji Rao, and Frederick II, Landgrave of Hesse-Kassel. Among people deceased in 1793, Charles Bonnet ranks 16. Before him are Francesco Guardi, Louis Philippe II, Duke of Orléans, Madame Roland, Jean Sylvain Bailly, Jacques Pierre Brissot, and Alexander Roslin. After him are Jean-Marie Roland de la Platière, William Aiton, Timur Shah Durrani, Pierre Victurnien Vergniaud, Louis Jean Marie de Bourbon, Duke of Penthièvre, and Antoine Barnave.

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In Switzerland

Among people born in Switzerland, Charles Bonnet ranks 117 out of 1,015. Before him are Emil Abderhalden (1877), Jacques Dubochet (1942), Alexander Agassiz (1835), Henri-Frédéric Amiel (1821), César Ritz (1850), and Abraham-Louis Breguet (1747). After him are Jean Charles Léonard de Sismondi (1773), Friedrich Miescher (1844), Albert Anker (1831), Sophie Taeuber-Arp (1889), Gottfried Keller (1819), and Paul Guldin (1577).

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Among BIOLOGISTS In Switzerland

Among biologists born in Switzerland, Charles Bonnet ranks 9. Before him are Augustin Pyramus de Candolle (1778), Werner Arber (1929), Carl Nägeli (1817), Gaspard Bauhin (1560), Louis Agassiz (1807), and Alexander Agassiz (1835). After him are Jakob Friedrich Ehrhart (1742), Albert von Kölliker (1817), Johann Jakob von Tschudi (1818), Pierre Edmond Boissier (1810), François-Alphonse Forel (1841), and Josias Braun-Blanquet (1884).

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