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Joseph Pitton de Tournefort

1656 - 1708

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Joseph Pitton de Tournefort (5 June 1656 – 28 December 1708) was a French botanist, notable as the first to make a clear definition of the concept of genus for plants. Botanist Charles Plumier was his pupil and accompanied him on his voyages. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Joseph Pitton de Tournefort is the 108th most popular biologist (down from 84th in 2019), the 865th most popular biography from France (up from 892nd in 2019) and the 20th most popular French Biologist.

Joseph Pitton de Tournefort was a botanist who is most famous for his work in classifying plants. He is also credited with inventing the terms "family," "genus," and "species."

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Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, Joseph Pitton de Tournefort ranks 108 out of 1,097. Before him are Ulisse Aldrovandi, Christian Gottfried Ehrenberg, Georges J. F. Köhler, Philip Miller, Jean-Henri Fabre, and Coenraad Jacob Temminck. After him are Christiaan Hendrik Persoon, Stanley B. Prusiner, Gotthelf Fischer von Waldheim, Svante Pääbo, Hermann Joseph Muller, and Vladimir Vernadsky.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1656, Joseph Pitton de Tournefort ranks 6. Before him are Edmond Halley, Marin Marais, Kateri Tekakwitha, Ulrika Eleonora of Denmark, and Johann Bernhard Fischer von Erlach. After him are Anton Florian, Prince of Liechtenstein, Nicolas de Largillière, Guillaume Dubois, Robert de Cotte, Johann Caspar Ferdinand Fischer, and Ferdinand de Marsin. Among people deceased in 1708, Joseph Pitton de Tournefort ranks 2. Before him is Guru Gobind Singh. After him are Jules Hardouin-Mansart, Hedvig Sophia of Sweden, Olympia Mancini, Countess of Soissons, Ehrenfried Walther von Tschirnhaus, Prince George of Denmark, Adolphus Frederick II, Duke of Mecklenburg-Strelitz, Seki Takakazu, Ludolf Bakhuizen, John Blow, and Ferdinando Carlo Gonzaga, Duke of Mantua and Montferrat.

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In France

Among people born in France, Joseph Pitton de Tournefort ranks 865 out of 6,770. Before him are Jean-Henri Fabre (1823), Princess Augusta of Bavaria (1788), Pierre Méchain (1744), Arnaut Daniel (1150), Theobald I of Navarre (1201), and Liliane Bettencourt (1922). After him are Maurice René Fréchet (1878), Antoine Meillet (1866), Marie François Sadi Carnot (1837), Dora Maar (1907), Louis I, Duke of Bourbon (1279), and Pierre Janssen (1824).

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Among BIOLOGISTS In France

Among biologists born in France, Joseph Pitton de Tournefort ranks 20. Before him are Antoine Laurent de Jussieu (1748), René Lesson (1794), Étienne Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire (1772), Charles Lucien Bonaparte (1803), Pierre André Latreille (1762), and Jean-Henri Fabre (1823). After him are Aimé Bonpland (1773), Félix d'Herelle (1873), Bernard Germain de Lacépède (1756), Mathurin Jacques Brisson (1723), Antoine-Augustin Parmentier (1737), and Armand David (1826).

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