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Elias Magnus Fries

1794 - 1878

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Elias Magnus Fries (15 August 1794 – 8 February 1878) was a Swedish mycologist and botanist. He is sometimes called the "Linnaeus of Mycology". In his works he described and assigned botanical names to hundreds of fungus and lichen species, many of which remain authoritative today. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Elias Magnus Fries is the 116th most popular biologist (up from 133rd in 2019), the 115th most popular biography from Sweden (up from 150th in 2019) and the 5th most popular Swedish Biologist.

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Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, Elias Magnus Fries ranks 116 out of 1,097. Before him are Stanley B. Prusiner, Gotthelf Fischer von Waldheim, Svante Pääbo, Hermann Joseph Muller, Vladimir Vernadsky, and William John Swainson. After him are John B. Calhoun, Ferdinand Cohn, James Edward Smith, Sylvia Earle, Carl Peter Thunberg, and John Hopfield.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1794, Elias Magnus Fries ranks 3. Before him are Antonio López de Santa Anna, and René Lesson. After him are Matthew C. Perry, Cornelius Vanderbilt, Infante Francisco de Paula, Duke of Cádiz, Theobald Boehm, Wilhelm Müller, Carl Friedrich Philipp von Martius, Józef Bem, Ignaz Moscheles, and William Whewell. Among people deceased in 1878, Elias Magnus Fries ranks 10. Before him are Princess Alice of the United Kingdom, Claude Bernard, Joseph Henry, Julius von Mayer, Charles-François Daubigny, and Maria Christina of the Two Sicilies. After him are George V of Hanover, Ernst Heinrich Weber, Angelo Secchi, Władysław Tarnowski, Mirza Fatali Akhundov, and Antoine César Becquerel.

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In Sweden

Among people born in Sweden, Elias Magnus Fries ranks 115 out of 1,879. Before him are Hjalmar Branting (1860), Eric XII of Sweden (1339), Svante Pääbo (1955), Princess Christina, Mrs. Magnuson (1943), Olaus Magnus (1490), and Princess Margaretha, Mrs. Ambler (1934). After him are Jenny Lind (1820), Carl Peter Thunberg (1743), Franz Berwald (1796), Peter Stormare (1953), Nils Liedholm (1922), and Lennart Torstensson (1603).

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Among BIOLOGISTS In Sweden

Among biologists born in Sweden, Elias Magnus Fries ranks 5. Before him are Carl Linnaeus (1707), Tomas Lindahl (1938), Hugo Theorell (1903), and Svante Pääbo (1955). After him are Carl Peter Thunberg (1743), Adam Afzelius (1750), Carl Linnaeus the Younger (1741), Olaus Rudbeck (1630), Anders Sparrman (1748), Eva Ekeblad (1724), and Jacob Georg Agardh (1813).

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