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Charles Plumier

1646 - 1704

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Charles Plumier (French: [ʃaʁl ply.mje]; 20 April 1646 – 20 November 1704) was a French botanist after whom the frangipani genus Plumeria is named. Plumier is considered one of the most important of the botanical explorers of his time. He made three botanizing expeditions to the West Indies, which resulted in a massive work Nova Plantarum Americanarum Genera (1703–1704) and was appointed botanist to King Louis XIV of France. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Charles Plumier is the 369th most popular biologist (down from 306th in 2019), the 2,492nd most popular biography from France (up from 2,574th in 2019) and the 44th most popular French Biologist.

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Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, Charles Plumier ranks 369 out of 1,097. Before him are Antoine Béchamp, Constantine Samuel Rafinesque, Pierre Edmond Boissier, Jean René Constant Quoy, Olof Swartz, and Joel Asaph Allen. After him are Richard Bowdler Sharpe, Otto Kuntze, August Batsch, David Douglas, Georg Joseph Kamel, and Frank Chapman.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1646, Charles Plumier ranks 12. Before him are Antoine Galland, Jules Hardouin-Mansart, Tokugawa Tsunayoshi, Godfrey Kneller, Maria Francisca of Savoy, and Hortense Mancini. After him are Alexandre Exquemelin, Paul Hermann, Frederick I, Duke of Saxe-Gotha-Altenburg, Élisabeth Marguerite d'Orléans, Glückel of Hameln, and Pierre Le Pesant, sieur de Boisguilbert. Among people deceased in 1704, Charles Plumier ranks 10. Before him are Guillaume de l'Hôpital, Heinrich Ignaz Franz Biber, Sophia Alekseyevna of Russia, Georg Muffat, Princess Frederica Amalia of Denmark, and Jean-Baptiste Denys. After him are Isabella Leonarda, Selim I Giray, John Charles, Count Palatine of Gelnhausen, Rudolph Augustus, Duke of Braunschweig-Wolfenbüttel, Louis Bourdaloue, and Menno van Coehoorn.

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In France

Among people born in France, Charles Plumier ranks 2,492 out of 6,770. Before him are Carle Vernet (1758), Gaston Paris (1839), Pierre Gamarra (1919), Theobald I, Count of Blois (910), Jacques Laffitte (1767), and Drogo of Champagne (670). After him are Jacques Tourneur (1904), Matthieu Ricard (1946), André Dussollier (1946), Hans van den Broek (1936), Henri Joseph Anastase Perrotin (1845), and Charles-Joseph Natoire (1700).

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Among BIOLOGISTS In France

Among biologists born in France, Charles Plumier ranks 44. Before him are Jean Victoir Audouin (1797), Guillaume-Antoine Olivier (1756), Jérôme Lejeune (1926), Pierre Gaspard Chaumette (1763), Antoine Béchamp (1816), and Jean René Constant Quoy (1790). After him are Adolphe-Théodore Brongniart (1801), Louis Claude Richard (1754), Pierre Joseph Bonnaterre (1752), Auguste Chevalier (1873), Philibert Commerson (1727), and Achille Valenciennes (1794).

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