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Edouard Van Beneden

1846 - 1910

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Édouard Joseph Louis Marie Van Beneden (5 March 1846 in Leuven – 28 April 1910 in Liège) was a Belgian embryologist, cytologist and marine biologist. He was professor of zoology at the University of Liège. He contributed to cytogenetics by his works on the roundworm Ascaris. In this work he discovered how chromosomes organized meiosis (the production of gametes). Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Edouard Van Beneden is the 533rd most popular biologist (up from 596th in 2019), the 453rd most popular biography from Belgium (up from 535th in 2019) and the 6th most popular Belgian Biologist.

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Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, Edouard Van Beneden ranks 533 out of 1,097. Before him are Sébastien Vaillant, Eduard August von Regel, Franz Meyen, William Robert Ogilvie-Grant, Princess Therese of Bavaria, and Jean Baptiste Bory de Saint-Vincent. After him are William Curtis, Ernst Schäfer, Matthias de l'Obel, Camille Guérin, Edward Daniel Clarke, and Rupert Sheldrake.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1846, Edouard Van Beneden ranks 63. Before him are Albert Apponyi, Luigi Denza, Carlos Pellegrini, Marie Popelin, Prince Gaetan, Count of Girgenti, and Emil Warburg. After him are Martin Wegelius, Holger Drachmann, Ernest Monis, Alexander Karpinsky, Heinrich XXII, Prince Reuss of Greiz, and Johann Most. Among people deceased in 1910, Edouard Van Beneden ranks 58. Before him are Luo Yixiu, Winslow Homer, Gustave Moynier, Princess Marie of the Netherlands, Hormuzd Rassam, and Laza Kostić. After him are Paolo Mantegazza, William Graham Sumner, Gustav Adolf von Götzen, Jorge Chávez, Édouard Colonne, and George Turner.

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In Belgium

Among people born in Belgium, Edouard Van Beneden ranks 453 out of 1,190. Before him are Joseph Lebeau (1794), André Vandewyer (1909), Radja Nainggolan (1988), Camille Jenatzy (1868), Théo Lefèvre (1914), and Bobbejaan Schoepen (1925). After him are Alof de Wignacourt (1547), Joseph Poelaert (1817), Jean Servais (1910), George Minne (1866), Adriaen Isenbrandt (1490), and Eugène Boch (1855).

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Among BIOLOGISTS In Belgium

Among biologists born in Belgium, Edouard Van Beneden ranks 6. Before him are Jules Bordet (1870), Albert Claude (1899), Henri Milne-Edwards (1800), Barthélemy Charles Joseph Dumortier (1797), and George Albert Boulenger (1858). After him are Émile Auguste Joseph De Wildeman (1866), Marie-Anne Libert (1782), and Peter Piot (1949).

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