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Félix Vicq-d'Azyr

1748 - 1794

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Félix Vicq d'Azyr (French: [feliks vik daziʁ]; 23 April 1748 – 20 June 1794) was a French physician and anatomist, the originator of comparative anatomy and discoverer of the theory of homology in biology. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Félix Vicq-d'Azyr is the 439th most popular biologist (down from 396th in 2019), the 2,890th most popular biography from France (up from 3,047th in 2019) and the 54th most popular French Biologist.

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Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, Félix Vicq-d'Azyr ranks 439 out of 1,097. Before him are Roderick Murchison, Juan Ignacio Molina, Arthur Cronquist, Robert Weinberg, Mary Elizabeth Barber, and John Stevens Henslow. After him are Rudolf Weigl, Oscar Hertwig, Adrien-Henri de Jussieu, Franz von Paula Schrank, Ernst Hartert, and Alexander Wilson.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1748, Félix Vicq-d'Azyr ranks 21. Before him are Christian Gottlob Neefe, Timur Shah Durrani, Benedict Joseph Labre, John Marshall, Petar I Petrović-Njegoš, and Dominique, comte de Cassini. After him are Asaf-ud-Daula, William Cavendish, 5th Duke of Devonshire, Frederick V, Landgrave of Hesse-Homburg, John Playfair, Francesco Mario Pagano, and Martha Jefferson. Among people deceased in 1794, Félix Vicq-d'Azyr ranks 44. Before him are Lucile Desmoulins, Florimond Claude, Comte de Mercy-Argenteau, Anacharsis Cloots, Étienne Charles de Loménie de Brienne, Lotf Ali Khan, and Jacques François Dugommier. After him are Jérôme Pétion de Villeneuve, Nicolas Luckner, François-Joachim de Pierre de Bernis, François Hanriot, François Joseph Westermann, and Jean-Pierre Claris de Florian.

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In France

Among people born in France, Félix Vicq-d'Azyr ranks 2,890 out of 6,770. Before him are John Charles, Count Palatine of Gelnhausen (1638), Henri Desgrange (1865), Nicholas I, Duke of Lorraine (1448), Yann LeCun (1960), Marcel Prévost (1862), and Claude Alexandre de Bonneval (1675). After him are Victor de Riqueti, marquis de Mirabeau (1715), Favorinus (85), Bernard Farcy (1949), Jean Lefebvre (1919), Saint Faith (290), and Roger Pingeon (1940).

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Among BIOLOGISTS In France

Among biologists born in France, Félix Vicq-d'Azyr ranks 54. Before him are Auguste Chevalier (1873), Philibert Commerson (1727), Achille Valenciennes (1794), Pierre Magnol (1638), Eugène Simon (1848), and Paul Gervais (1816). After him are Adrien-Henri de Jussieu (1797), Henri Ernest Baillon (1827), Antoine de Jussieu (1686), Alain Bombard (1924), Charles-François Brisseau de Mirbel (1776), and Lucien Quélet (1832).

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