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José Celestino Mutis

1732 - 1808

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José Celestino Bruno Mutis y Bosio (6 April 1732 – 11 September 1808) was a Spanish priest, botanist and mathematician. He was a significant figure in the Spanish American Enlightenment, whom Alexander von Humboldt met on his expedition to Spanish America. He is one of the most important authors of the Spanish Universalist School of the 18th century, together with Juan Andrés or Antonio Eximeno. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. José Celestino Mutis is the 566th most popular physicist (up from 584th in 2019), the 1,208th most popular biography from Spain (up from 1,294th in 2019) and the 2nd most popular Spanish Physicist.

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Among PHYSICISTS

Among physicists, José Celestino Mutis ranks 566 out of 851. Before him are Samuel T. Cohen, Wander Johannes de Haas, Ernest Marsden, Boris Rosing, Alfred Perot, and Henri-Louis Duhamel du Monceau. After him are Lev Artsimovich, Ralph H. Fowler, Willem Hendrik Keesom, John Lennard-Jones, Jakob II Bernoulli, and Marietta Blau.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1732, José Celestino Mutis ranks 27. Before him are František Brixi, John Blair Jr., Joseph Gaertner, Jeanne Julie Éléonore de Lespinasse, Princess Elisabeth Friederike Sophie of Brandenburg-Bayreuth, and Joseph von Sonnenfels. After him are Johan Peter Falk, Richard Henry Lee, Shuja-ud-Daula, and David Rittenhouse. Among people deceased in 1808, José Celestino Mutis ranks 19. Before him are Paul Wranitzky, Ove Høegh-Guldberg, Gaétan Vestris, Alemdar Mustafa Pasha, Princess Wilhelmina of Hesse-Kassel, and Étienne Pierre Ventenat. After him are José Moñino, 1st Count of Floridablanca, Alexander Dalrymple, Fredrik Henrik af Chapman, Princess Louise of Saxe-Gotha-Altenburg, Giuseppe Piermarini, and Guy Carleton, 1st Baron Dorchester.

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In Spain

Among people born in Spain, José Celestino Mutis ranks 1,208 out of 3,355. Before him are Marcos Alonso (1990), Juan Fernández Navarrete (1526), Soledad Miranda (1943), Pascual de Andagoya (1495), Joaquina Vedruna de Mas (1783), and Sabicas (1912). After him are Ana Belén (1951), Eusebio Sacristán (1964), Marcelino García Toral (1965), Juan Modesto (1906), Ferran Adrià (1962), and Luis Vélez de Guevara (1579).

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Among PHYSICISTS In Spain

Among physicists born in Spain, José Celestino Mutis ranks 2. Before him are Javier Solana (1942). After him are Juan Ignacio Cirac Sasturain (1965).

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