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Kristine Bonnevie

1872 - 1948

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Kristine Elisabet Heuch Bonnevie (8 October 1872 – 30 August 1948) was a Norwegian biologist. She was the first woman to graduate with a science doctorate in Norway (and the second woman overall), Norway's first woman professor, a women's rights activist, and a politician for the Free-minded Liberal Party. Her fields of research were cytology, genetics, and embryology. She was among the first women to be elected to political office in Norway. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Kristine Bonnevie is the 573rd most popular biologist (up from 768th in 2019), the 215th most popular biography from Norway (up from 329th in 2019) and the 5th most popular Norwegian Biologist.

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Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, Kristine Bonnevie ranks 573 out of 1,097. Before her are Alwin Berger, Henri Cassini, Eduard Friedrich Poeppig, Franz Xaver von Wulfen, Karl Friedrich von Gaertner, and Edmond Albius. After her are Georg von Langsdorff, August W. Eichler, Charles Antoine Lemaire, John Gilbert Baker, Rudolf Schlechter, and Augustin Saint-Hilaire.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1872, Kristine Bonnevie ranks 110. Before her are Paul Reinecke, Ludvig Mylius-Erichsen, Alexandru Vaida-Voevod, Vilhelms Purvītis, Karin Michaëlis, and Georges Urbain. After her are Tōson Shimazaki, Déodat de Séverac, Kazimierz Bein, Franz John, Rudolf Schlechter, and Albert Tyler. Among people deceased in 1948, Kristine Bonnevie ranks 110. Before her are Karl Valentin, Henning Jakob Henrik Lund, Monteiro Lobato, Kan Kikuchi, Adolf Kainz, and Richard Tauber. After her are Carole Landis, Lajos Bíró, Edgar Leonard, Fred Niblo, Gennaro Granito Pignatelli di Belmonte, and Richard von Kühlmann.

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In Norway

Among people born in Norway, Kristine Bonnevie ranks 215 out of 1,039. Before her are Roald Aas (1928), Johan Ludwig Mowinckel (1870), Jens Munk (1579), Kirsti Sparboe (1946), Ellen Gleditsch (1879), and Karl Ove Knausgård (1968). After her are Belle Gunness (1859), Ole Ellefsæter (1939), John Norum (1964), Eysteinn Erlendsson (1120), Gunnar Heiberg (1857), and Bjørn Wirkola (1943).

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Among BIOLOGISTS In Norway

Among biologists born in Norway, Kristine Bonnevie ranks 5. Before her are Harald Sverdrup (1888), Martin Vahl (1749), Johan Ernst Gunnerus (1718), and Henrik Steffens (1773). After her are Georg Ossian Sars (1837), Leonhard Stejneger (1851), Michael Sars (1805), Peter Ascanius (1723), and Hanna Resvoll-Holmsen (1873).

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