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Lev Berg

1876 - 1950

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Lev Semyonovich Berg, also known as Leo S. Berg (Russian: Лев Семёнович Берг; 14 March 1876 – 24 December 1950) was a leading Russian geographer, biologist and ichthyologist who served as President of the Soviet Geographical Society between 1940 and 1950. He is known for his own evolutionary theory, nomogenesis (a form of orthogenesis incorporating mutationism) as opposed to the theories of Darwin and Lamarck. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Lev Berg is the 404th most popular biologist (down from 311th in 2019), the 21st most popular biography from Moldova (up from 22nd in 2019) and the most popular Moldovan Biologist.

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Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, Lev Berg ranks 404 out of 1,097. Before him are Theodor Boveri, Georg Eberhard Rumphius, Ludwik Fleck, Karl Koch, Pierre Joseph Bonnaterre, and Harold E. Varmus. After him are Heinrich Anton de Bary, June Almeida, Georg August Goldfuss, Auguste Chevalier, Philibert Commerson, and Achille Valenciennes.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1876, Lev Berg ranks 90. Before him are Claude Farrère, Raymond Duchamp-Villon, Agustín Pedro Justo, Gertrud von Le Fort, Eglantyne Jebb, and Ferdynand Antoni Ossendowski. After him are Sibilla Aleramo, Georg Hilmar, Thomas Hicks, Francesc Cambó, Erhard Schmidt, and Irving Baxter. Among people deceased in 1950, Lev Berg ranks 78. Before him are Peter Fraser, Nikolai Voznesensky, Hantaro Nagaoka, Walter Eucken, Alma Karlin, and Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah. After him are Shigenori Tōgō, Sami al-Hinnawi, Kurt Schmitt, Adolf Wiklund, Gustaf John Ramstedt, and Traian Vuia.

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In Moldova

Among people born in Moldova, Lev Berg ranks 21 out of 107. Before him are Petru Lucinschi (1940), Iona Yakir (1896), Maria Cebotari (1910), Vladimir Purishkevich (1870), Alexey Shchusev (1873), and Jerzy Neyman (1894). After him are Meir Dizengoff (1861), Eugenio Coșeriu (1921), Vladimir Albitsky (1891), Lia Manoliu (1932), Nikolay Zelinsky (1861), and Mihai Ghimpu (1951).

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Among BIOLOGISTS In Moldova

Among biologists born in Moldova, Lev Berg ranks 1. 

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