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Louis Jean Pierre Vieillot

1748 - 1831

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Louis Pierre Vieillot (10 May 1748, Yvetot – 24 August 1830, Sotteville-lès-Rouen) was a French ornithologist. Vieillot is the author of the first scientific descriptions and Linnaean names of a number of birds, including species he collected himself in the West Indies and North America and South American species discovered but not formally named by Félix de Azara and his translator Sonnini de Manoncourt. He was among the first ornithologists to study changes in plumage and one of the first to study live birds. At least 77 of the genera erected by Vieillot are still in use. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Louis Jean Pierre Vieillot is the 26th most popular biologist (up from 405th in 2019), the 327th most popular biography from France (up from 3,104th in 2019) and the 4th most popular French Biologist.

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Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, Louis Jean Pierre Vieillot ranks 26 out of 1,097. Before him are Élie Metchnikoff, Thomas Hunt Morgan, Jules Bordet, Edward Tatum, Yoshinori Ohsumi, and John Boyd Orr. After him are Thomas Henry Huxley, John Sulston, Richard Dawkins, Luc Montagnier, Maria Sibylla Merian, and Albrecht Kossel.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1748, Louis Jean Pierre Vieillot ranks 5. Before him are Jacques-Louis David, Jeremy Bentham, Charles XIII of Sweden, and Charles IV of Spain. After him are Emmanuel Joseph Sieyès, Olympe de Gouges, Claude Louis Berthollet, Adam Weishaupt, Antoine Laurent de Jussieu, William V, Prince of Orange, and Johann Friedrich Gmelin. Among people deceased in 1831, Louis Jean Pierre Vieillot ranks 4. Before him are Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, Carl von Clausewitz, and James Monroe. After him are Sophie Germain, Napoléon Louis Bonaparte, Friedrich Wilhelm, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg, Archduke Rudolf of Austria, Ioannis Kapodistrias, Emilia Plater, Achim von Arnim, and Princess Louise of Saxe-Gotha-Altenburg.

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In France

Among people born in France, Louis Jean Pierre Vieillot ranks 327 out of 6,770. Before him are Jean Baptiste Perrin (1870), Jacques de Molay (1243), Richard I of Normandy (933), Abraham de Moivre (1667), Emmanuel Macron (1977), and Pope Nicholas II (990). After him are Georges-Eugène Haussmann (1809), Charlotte Corday (1768), John the Fearless (1371), John I of France (1316), Alphonse Daudet (1840), and François de La Rochefoucauld (1613).

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Among BIOLOGISTS In France

Among biologists born in France, Louis Jean Pierre Vieillot ranks 4. Before him are Jean-Baptiste Lamarck (1744), Georges Cuvier (1769), and Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon (1707). After him are Luc Montagnier (1932), Charles Richet (1850), André Michel Lwoff (1902), Françoise Barré-Sinoussi (1947), François Jacob (1920), Roger Guillemin (1924), René Antoine Ferchault de Réaumur (1683), and Jean Dausset (1916).

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