BIOLOGIST

Ivan Vladimirovich Michurin

1855 - 1935

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Ivan Vladimirovich Michurin (Russian: Иван Владимирович Мичурин; October 27 [O.S. October 15] 1855 – June 7, 1935) was a Russian practitioner of selection to produce new types of crop plants, Honorable Member of the Soviet Academy of Sciences, and academician of the Lenin All-Union Academy of Agriculture. Throughout all his life, Michurin worked to create new sorts of fruit plants. He introduced over 300 new varieties. He was awarded the Order of Lenin and Order of the Red Banner of Labour for his achievements. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Ivan Vladimirovich Michurin is the 141st most popular biologist (down from 96th in 2019), the 289th most popular biography from Russia (down from 270th in 2019) and the 5th most popular Russian Biologist.

Ivan Vladimirovich Michurin was a Russian botanist and horticulturist, who is most famous for his work on cross-breeding plants.

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Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, Ivan Vladimirovich Michurin ranks 141 out of 1,097. Before him are Lynn Margulis, Gaspard Bauhin, Johann Friedrich Gmelin, Oliver Smithies, Martin Evans, and Gerald Edelman. After him are Edward B. Lewis, Aimé Bonpland, Daniel Nathans, Charles Scott Sherrington, E. O. Wilson, and Gabriele Falloppio.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1855, Ivan Vladimirovich Michurin ranks 12. Before him are Houston Stewart Chamberlain, Otto Liman von Sanders, John Browning, Swami Sri Yukteswar Giri, Percival Lowell, and Ernest Chausson. After him are Paul Deschanel, Eleanor Marx, Robert M. La Follette, Arthur Nikisch, Infanta Maria Theresa of Portugal, and Paul-Jacques Curie. Among people deceased in 1935, Ivan Vladimirovich Michurin ranks 27. Before him are Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr., Lij Iyasu of Ethiopia, Jane Addams, Komitas, Josef Suk, and Max Liebermann. After him are Aron Nimzowitsch, Henri Pirenne, Izz ad-Din al-Qassam, Hugo Junkers, Elisabeth Förster-Nietzsche, and Mihajlo Pupin.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Ivan Vladimirovich Michurin ranks 289 out of 3,761. Before him are Vasily Vereshchagin (1842), Fyodor Tolbukhin (1894), Igor Smirnov (1941), Ivan Silayev (1930), Nikolay Semyonov (1896), and Oleg Antonov (1906). After him are Arthur Adamov (1908), Alexandre Koyré (1892), Boris Shaposhnikov (1882), Colmar Freiherr von der Goltz (1843), Natalya Naryshkina (1651), and Varlam Shalamov (1907).

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Among BIOLOGISTS In Russia

Among biologists born in Russia, Ivan Vladimirovich Michurin ranks 5. Before him are Ivan Pavlov (1849), Alexander Oparin (1894), Nikolai Vavilov (1887), and Vladimir Vernadsky (1863). After him are Dmitri Ivanovsky (1864), Nikolay Pirogov (1810), Ilya Ivanovich Ivanov (1870), Alexander von Middendorff (1815), Nikolai Severtzov (1827), Edwin Klebs (1834), and Philipp Johann Ferdinand Schur (1799).

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