BIOLOGIST

Georg Ossian Sars

1837 - 1927

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Prof Georg Ossian Sars HFRSE (20 April 1837 – 9 April 1927) was a Norwegian marine and freshwater biologist. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Georg Ossian Sars is the 590th most popular biologist (up from 874th in 2019), the 229th most popular biography from Norway (up from 386th in 2019) and the 6th most popular Norwegian Biologist.

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Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, Georg Ossian Sars ranks 590 out of 1,097Before him are Philip Henry Gosse, Mary Agnes Chase, Philippe Édouard Léon Van Tieghem, Jean Baptiste Boisduval, William Speirs Bruce, and Nathaniel Lord Britton. After him are Johann Friedrich Meckel, Jean Louis Armand de Quatrefages de Bréau, Joseph Leidy, Charles De Geer, Carl-Gustaf Rossby, and Tsuneko Okazaki.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1837, Georg Ossian Sars ranks 70Before him are Tippu Tip, Ernst Ziller, Dwight L. Moody, Anna Filosofova, Sanjō Sanetomi, and Walter Hauser. After him are Michele Rua, Henry Becque, Joachim IV of Constantinople, Alphonse Legros, Tony Robert-Fleury, and Amelia Dyer. Among people deceased in 1927, Georg Ossian Sars ranks 84Before him are Francis Lane, Carl Graebe, Khalid bin Barghash of Zanzibar, Jurgis Matulaitis-Matulevičius, József Rippl-Rónai, and Hermann von Stein. After him are Ernest Starling, Ram Prasad Bismil, Franz Rohr von Denta, Borisav Stanković, Miguel Pro, and Matilde Serao.

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In Norway

Among people born in Norway, Georg Ossian Sars ranks 229 out of 1,039Before him are Harriet Bosse (1878), Niels Juel (1629), Sissel Kyrkjebø (1969), Helmer Hanssen (1870), Toralf Engan (1936), and Bernt Michael Holmboe (1795). After him are Kristen Nygaard (1926), Nina Grieg (1845), Nora Brockstedt (1923), Harald Grønningen (1934), Alf Andersen (1906), and Jens Hundseid (1883).

Among BIOLOGISTS In Norway

Among biologists born in Norway, Georg Ossian Sars ranks 6Before him are Harald Sverdrup (1888), Martin Vahl (1749), Johan Ernst Gunnerus (1718), Henrik Steffens (1773), and Kristine Bonnevie (1872). After him are Leonhard Stejneger (1851), Michael Sars (1805), Peter Ascanius (1723), and Hanna Resvoll-Holmsen (1873).