BIOLOGIST

Hugo de Vries

1848 - 1935

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Hugo Marie de Vries (Dutch: [ˈɦyɣoː də ˈvris]; 16 February 1848 – 21 May 1935) was a Dutch botanist and one of the first geneticists. He is known chiefly for suggesting the concept of genes, rediscovering the laws of heredity in the 1890s while apparently unaware of Gregor Mendel's work, for introducing the term "mutation", and for developing a mutation theory of evolution. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Hugo de Vries is the 65th most popular biologist (down from 56th in 2019), the 67th most popular biography from Netherlands (up from 77th in 2019) and the 3rd most popular Dutch Biologist.

Hugo de Vries was a Dutch botanist who is most famous for his work on genetics. He was the first to propose the idea of mutation, which is the change in the genetic material of an organism.

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Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, Hugo de Vries ranks 65 out of 1,097. Before him are Hugo Gunckel Lüer, René Antoine Ferchault de Réaumur, Jean Dausset, Gregory Winter, Linda B. Buck, and Daniel Bovet. After him are Augustin Pyramus de Candolle, Hugo Theorell, Dian Fossey, George Shaw, Adelbert von Chamisso, and Günter Blobel.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1848, Hugo de Vries ranks 11. Before him are Raja Ravi Varma, Otto of Bavaria, Johann Palisa, Otto Lilienthal, Joris-Karl Huysmans, and Gustave Caillebotte. After him are Helmuth von Moltke the Younger, Albert I, Prince of Monaco, Arthur Balfour, Tōgō Heihachirō, Aleksey Kuropatkin, and Viktor Vasnetsov. Among people deceased in 1935, Hugo de Vries ranks 19. Before him are Konstantin Tsiolkovsky, Astrid of Sweden, Charles Richet, André Citroën, Henri Barbusse, and Carlos Gardel. After him are Paul Dukas, Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr., Lij Iyasu of Ethiopia, Jane Addams, Komitas, and Josef Suk.

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In Netherlands

Among people born in Netherlands, Hugo de Vries ranks 67 out of 1,646. Before him are Gustav Krupp von Bohlen und Halbach (1870), Frank Rijkaard (1962), Theo van Doesburg (1883), Theo van Gogh (1857), Martinus J. G. Veltman (1931), and Michiel de Ruyter (1607). After him are L. E. J. Brouwer (1881), William II, Prince of Orange (1626), Pieter de Hooch (1629), Ronald Koeman (1963), Mark Rutte (1967), and Han van Meegeren (1889).

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Among BIOLOGISTS In Netherlands

Among biologists born in Netherlands, Hugo de Vries ranks 3. Before him are Antonie van Leeuwenhoek (1632), and Nikolaas Tinbergen (1907). After him are Herman Boerhaave (1668), Coenraad Jacob Temminck (1778), Nikolaus Joseph von Jacquin (1727), Jan Swammerdam (1637), Martinus Beijerinck (1851), Pieter Boddaert (1730), Nicolaas Laurens Burman (1734), Pieter Bleeker (1819), and Wilhem de Haan (1801).

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