BIOLOGIST

Maurice Kottelat

1957 - Today

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Maurice Kottelat (born 16 July 1957 in Delémont, Switzerland) is a Swiss ichthyologist specializing in Eurasian freshwater fishes. Kottelat obtained a License in Sciences at the University of Neuchâtel in 1987 and in 1989 a doctoral degree from the University of Amsterdam. In 1980 he went to Thailand where he began his field research on Southeast Asian and Indonesian fresh water fishes. In 1997 he wrote an important revision on the genus Coregonus, which includes the fish species from Lake Geneva, Lake Constance and other lakes in Switzerland. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Maurice Kottelat is the 1,072nd most popular biologist (up from 1,074th in 2019), the 748th most popular biography from Switzerland (up from 766th in 2019) and the 28th most popular Swiss Biologist.

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Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, Maurice Kottelat ranks 1,072 out of 1,097. Before him are Frank Fenner, Severn Cullis-Suzuki, Hugo López-Gatell Ramírez, Eugenie Clark, Pamela C. Rasmussen, and Fanny Hesse. After him are Susan Lindquist, Suzanne Cory, Steve Jones, Jerry Coyne, Joan A. Steitz, and Gita Ramjee.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1957, Maurice Kottelat ranks 664. Before him are Gaspar Llamazares, Nasser Shabani, Kathy Kreiner, Víctor Rangel, Christopher Moore, and Elena Chizhova. After him are Aki Karvonen, Viktor Gavrikov, Tim Witherspoon, Paul Dini, Vasyl Arkhypenko, and Beat Breu.

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In Switzerland

Among people born in Switzerland, Maurice Kottelat ranks 748 out of 1,015. Before him are Stephan Lehmann (1963), Martin Brunner (1963), Selina Gasparin (1984), Timea Bacsinszky (1989), Mario Gavranović (1989), and Bettina Bunge (1963). After him are Ursula Konzett (1959), Martin Rueda (1963), Benjamin Huggel (1977), Beat Breu (1957), Elly Schlein (1985), and Christoph Spycher (1978).

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Among BIOLOGISTS In Switzerland

Among biologists born in Switzerland, Maurice Kottelat ranks 28. Before him are Alfred Newton (1829), Johannes Müller Argoviensis (1828), John Isaac Briquet (1870), Heinrich Zollinger (1818), Johann Amman (1707), and Émil Goeldi (1859).

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