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Isidore Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire

1805 - 1861

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Isidore Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire (French pronunciation: [izidɔʁ ʒɔfʁwa sɛ̃t‿ilɛʁ]; 16 December 1805 – 10 November 1861) was a French zoologist and an authority on deviation from normal structure. In 1854 he coined the term éthologie (ethology). Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Isidore Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire is the 311th most popular biologist (up from 312th in 2019), the 2,189th most popular biography from France (up from 2,625th in 2019) and the 37th most popular French Biologist.

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Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, Isidore Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire ranks 311 out of 1,097. Before him are Jacob Christian Schäffer, George Arnott Walker-Arnott, Hieronymus Bock, Karl Alfred von Zittel, Motoo Kimura, and John Gurdon. After him are Elmer Drew Merrill, Karl Gegenbaur, Gerrit Smith Miller, Jean Victoir Audouin, Ian Wilmut, and Guillaume-Antoine Olivier.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1805, Isidore Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire ranks 28. Before him are August Bournonville, Shirali Muslimov, 9th Dalai Lama, Jonas Furrer, Princess Amalia of Sweden, and Cochise. After him are Peter Johann Nepomuk Geiger, Joseph Škoda, John O. Westwood, Alexander Braun, Johan Peter Emilius Hartmann, and Eugène Schneider. Among people deceased in 1861, Isidore Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire ranks 27. Before him are Heinrich Marschner, Henry Gray, Tekla Bądarzewska-Baranowska, Jonas Furrer, Nikolay Dobrolyubov, and Henri Mouhot. After him are Infante Carlos, Count of Montemolin, Teréz Brunszvik, Karol Lipiński, Edward Dickinson Baker, Mikhail Dmitrievich Gorchakov, and Jean-Baptiste Henri Lacordaire.

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In France

Among people born in France, Isidore Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire ranks 2,189 out of 6,770. Before him are Louis Victor, Prince of Carignano (1721), Nicolas Lancret (1690), Pierre Fauchard (1679), Jo Schlesser (1928), Paul Virilio (1932), and Jean Djorkaeff (1939). After him are Émile Coué (1857), Marina Ginestà (1919), Pierre Monteux (1875), Jean-Pierre Aumont (1911), Gunnor (950), and Niels Arestrup (1949).

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Among BIOLOGISTS In France

Among biologists born in France, Isidore Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire ranks 37. Before him are Henri Marie Ducrotay de Blainville (1777), Frédéric Cuvier (1773), Pierre Belon (1517), Johann Hermann (1738), André Marie Constant Duméril (1774), and René Louiche Desfontaines (1750). After him are Jean Victoir Audouin (1797), Guillaume-Antoine Olivier (1756), Jérôme Lejeune (1926), Pierre Gaspard Chaumette (1763), Antoine Béchamp (1816), and Jean René Constant Quoy (1790).

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