BIOLOGIST

Henri Cassini

1781 - 1832

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Viscount Alexandre Henri Gabriel (vicomte) de Cassini (9 May 1781 – 23 April 1832) was a French botanist and naturalist, who specialised in the sunflower family (Asteraceae) (then known as family Compositae). He was the youngest of five children of Jacques Dominique, Comte de Cassini, famous for completing the map of France, who had succeeded his father as the director of the Paris Observatory. He was also the great-great-grandson of famous Italian-French astronomer, Giovanni Domenico Cassini, discoverer of Jupiter's Great Red Spot and the Cassini division in Saturn's rings. The genus Cassinia was named in his honour by the botanist Robert Brown. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Henri Cassini is the 568th most popular biologist (up from 687th in 2019), the 3,479th most popular biography from France (up from 4,268th in 2019) and the 79th most popular French Biologist.

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Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, Henri Cassini ranks 568 out of 1,097. Before him are Johann Friedrich Naumann, Karl Möbius, Henri Louis Frédéric de Saussure, Wilhem de Haan, Alfred Newton, and Alwin Berger. After him are Eduard Friedrich Poeppig, Franz Xaver von Wulfen, Karl Friedrich von Gaertner, Edmond Albius, Kristine Bonnevie, and Georg von Langsdorff.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1781, Henri Cassini ranks 31. Before him are Andrés Bello, Adolphe Marbot, Valentín Gómez Farías, Swaminarayan, Christian von Steven, and George Dawe. After him are Johann Friedrich Meckel, José de Madrazo y Agudo, William John Burchell, Joseph Johann von Littrow, Friedrich von Berchtold, and Joaquín Suárez. Among people deceased in 1832, Henri Cassini ranks 32. Before him are Jean Baptiste Gay, vicomte de Martignac, Demetrios Ypsilantis, Ghazi Muhammad, Jean-Antoine Chaptal, Casimir Pierre Périer, and John Leslie. After him are Kaʻahumanu, Antonio Scarpa, Karl Rudolphi, Andrew Bell, Wilhelm Bendz, and Marie-Jeanne de Lalande.

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In France

Among people born in France, Henri Cassini ranks 3,479 out of 6,770. Before him are Françoise d'Eaubonne (1920), Carole André (1953), Michel Hazanavicius (1967), Stéphane Courtois (1947), Jacques Fatton (1925), and Jean-Baptiste Élie de Beaumont (1798). After him are André Marie (1897), Charles Athanase Walckenaer (1771), Constance of France, Princess of Antioch (1078), Eustache Le Sueur (1616), Joseph Vendryes (1875), and Ernest Courtot de Cissey (1810).

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Among BIOLOGISTS In France

Among biologists born in France, Henri Cassini ranks 79. Before him are Camille Guérin (1872), Claude Thomas Alexis Jordan (1814), Joseph Paul Gaimard (1793), Marie Jules César Savigny (1777), Frédéric de Lafresnaye (1783), and René Maire (1878). After him are Charles Antoine Lemaire (1800), Augustin Saint-Hilaire (1779), Philippe Édouard Léon Van Tieghem (1839), Jean Baptiste Boisduval (1799), Jean Louis Armand de Quatrefages de Bréau (1810), and Antoine Risso (1777).

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