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Jeanne Villepreux-Power

1794 - 1871

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Jeanne Villepreux-Power, born Jeanne Villepreux (24 September 1794 – 25 January 1871), was a pioneering French marine biologist, described by English biologist Richard Owen as the "Mother of Aquariophily." In 1832 she was the first person to invent and create aquaria for experimenting with aquatic organisms. The systematic application of the aquarium to study marine life which she created is still used today. As a leading researcher on cephalopods, she proved that the Argonauta argo produces its own shells, as opposed to acquiring them. Villepreux-Power was also a noted dressmaker, author and conservationist, as well as the first female member of the Accademia Gioenia di Catania in 1832. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Jeanne Villepreux-Power is the 497th most popular biologist (up from 697th in 2019), the 3,166th most popular biography from France (up from 4,306th in 2019) and the 62nd most popular French Biologist.

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Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, Jeanne Villepreux-Power ranks 497 out of 1,097. Before her are David Starr Jordan, Vladimir Demikhov, Giuseppe Acerbi, Gabriel Bibron, Emil Christian Hansen, and Martin Rathke. After her are Salomon Müller, Guillaume Rondelet, Johann Hedwig, Paul Friedrich August Ascherson, Achille Richard, and William Hudson.

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Among people born in 1794, Jeanne Villepreux-Power ranks 37. Before her are Friedrich Wilhelm Rembert von Berg, Princess Louise of Saxe-Hildburghausen, Henriette d'Angeville, Eduard Friedrich Eversmann, Jacques Babinet, and Nasir-ud-Daulah. After her are Achille Richard, Ernst I, Prince of Hohenlohe-Langenburg, Gabriel Antonio Pereira, Joseph Lebeau, Konstantin Thon, and Wei Yuan. Among people deceased in 1871, Jeanne Villepreux-Power ranks 34. Before her are Pierre Leroux, Pierre Alexis Ponson du Terrail, François-Joseph Fétis, Leopold IV, Duke of Anhalt, Roderick Murchison, and Henriette d'Angeville. After her are Prince Gaetan, Count of Girgenti, József Eötvös, Hermann, Fürst von Pückler-Muskau, Henry E. Steinway, Paolo Savi, and Josef Mánes.

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In France

Among people born in France, Jeanne Villepreux-Power ranks 3,166 out of 6,770. Before her are Suzanne Flon (1918), Marguerite Durand (1864), Richard Galliano (1950), Pierre Samuel du Pont de Nemours (1739), Yvon Douis (1935), and Octave Feuillet (1821). After her are Beatus Rhenanus (1485), Guillaume Rondelet (1507), Gérard Larrousse (1940), Albert Kahn (1860), John III, Duke of Brittany (1286), and Michel Berger (1947).

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Among BIOLOGISTS In France

Among biologists born in France, Jeanne Villepreux-Power ranks 62. Before her are Henri Ernest Baillon (1827), Antoine de Jussieu (1686), Alain Bombard (1924), Charles-François Brisseau de Mirbel (1776), Lucien Quélet (1832), and Gabriel Bibron (1805). After her are Guillaume Rondelet (1507), Achille Richard (1794), Alphonse Milne-Edwards (1835), Charles Louis L'Héritier de Brutelle (1746), François Marie Daudin (1776), and Amédée Louis Michel le Peletier, comte de Saint-Fargeau (1770).

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