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Juliane Koepcke

1954 - Today

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Juliane Margaret Beate Koepcke (born 10 October 1954), is a German-Peruvian mammalogist who specialises in bats. She is the daughter of German zoologists Maria and Hans-Wilhelm Koepcke and sole survivor of the 1971 LANSA Flight 508 crash. When the plane was struck by lightning, she fell 3,000 m (10,000 ft) while strapped to her seat and suffered numerous injuries including a concussion, broken collarbone, and a torn knee ligament. She survived 11 days alone in the Peruvian Amazon rainforest until she located a lumberjack camp. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Juliane Koepcke is the 295th most popular biologist (up from 392nd in 2019), the 41st most popular biography from Peru (up from 49th in 2019) and the most popular Peruvian Biologist.

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Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, Juliane Koepcke ranks 295 out of 1,097. Before her are Odoardo Beccari, Johann Jakob von Tschudi, Lorenz Oken, Otto Brunfels, Jean Cabanis, and Armen Takhtajan. After her are Peter Medawar, George Bentham, Wilbur Scoville, Luigi Luca Cavalli-Sforza, Friedrich Anton Wilhelm Miquel, and Jacob Georg Agardh.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1954, Juliane Koepcke ranks 102. Before her are Katsuhiro Otomo, Ray Parker Jr., Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis, Lorraine Bracco, Milan Martić, and Alejandro Sabella. After her are Ellen Barkin, Michael Emerson, Morten P. Meldal, Viktor Medvedchuk, Yoshiichi Watanabe, and Philip J. Pierre.

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In Peru

Among people born in Peru, Juliane Koepcke ranks 41 out of 287. Before her are Sayri Túpac (1535), Felipe Guaman Poma de Ayala (1535), Lloque Yupanqui (1260), Yawar Waqaq (1380), José Carlos Mariátegui (1894), and Cápac Yupanqui (1320). After her are Titu Cusi (1535), Hugo Sotil (1949), Ollanta Humala (1962), Valentín Paniagua (1936), Francisco Sagasti (1944), and Fernando Fernán Gómez (1921).

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Among BIOLOGISTS In Peru

Among biologists born in Peru, Juliane Koepcke ranks 1. 

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