BIOLOGIST

Michel Adanson

1727 - 1806

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Michel Adanson (7 April 1727 – 3 August 1806) was an 18th-century French botanist and naturalist who traveled to Senegal to study flora and fauna. He proposed a "natural system" of taxonomy distinct from the binomial system forwarded by Linnaeus. The standard author abbreviation Adans. is used to indicate this person as the author when citing a botanical name. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Michel Adanson is the 197th most popular biologist (down from 160th in 2019), the 1,349th most popular biography from France (up from 1,374th in 2019) and the 28th most popular French Biologist.

Michel Adanson is most famous for his work in taxonomy. He was the first person to classify plants into families and genera.

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Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, Michel Adanson ranks 197 out of 1,097. Before him are Emmanuelle Charpentier, Alexander Georg von Bunge, Carl Linnaeus the Younger, Bruce Beutler, Jack Horner, and Walther Flemming. After him are Carl Ludwig Willdenow, Hermann Schlegel, Joseph Banks, Har Gobind Khorana, César Milstein, and Ludwig Reichenbach.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1727, Michel Adanson ranks 9. Before him are Thomas Gainsborough, Maximilian III Joseph, Elector of Bavaria, Jean-Georges Noverre, Nikolaus Joseph von Jacquin, Empress Xiaoyichun, and Henriette of France. After him are Prince Karl Anton August of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Beck, Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo, Ercole III d'Este, Duke of Modena, Jean-André Deluc, Ernest Frederick III, Duke of Saxe-Hildburghausen, and Luis of Spain, Count of Chinchón. Among people deceased in 1806, Michel Adanson ranks 19. Before him are Johann Christoph Adelung, Thomas-Alexandre Dumas, Utamaro, Nicolas Leblanc, Mathurin Jacques Brisson, and Claude Nicolas Ledoux. After him are Georgiana Cavendish, Duchess of Devonshire, Princess Maria Antonia of Naples and Sicily, Mungo Park, Prince Louis Ferdinand of Prussia, George Macartney, 1st Earl Macartney, and Pavel Tsitsianov.

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In France

Among people born in France, Michel Adanson ranks 1,349 out of 6,770. Before him are Élie Cartan (1869), Lazare Hoche (1768), Jean-Claude Killy (1943), Charles Leclerc (1772), Theobald II of Navarre (1239), and Pierre Bouguer (1698). After him are Louis Alexandre, Count of Toulouse (1678), Monique Wittig (1935), Charles I Gonzaga, Duke of Mantua (1580), Jane Avril (1868), Pierre Louis Dulong (1785), and Félix Savart (1791).

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Among BIOLOGISTS In France

Among biologists born in France, Michel Adanson ranks 28. Before him are Félix d'Herelle (1873), Bernard Germain de Lacépède (1756), Mathurin Jacques Brisson (1723), Antoine-Augustin Parmentier (1737), Armand David (1826), and Emmanuelle Charpentier (1968). After him are Alphonse Pyramus de Candolle (1806), Anselme Gaëtan Desmarest (1784), Henri Marie Ducrotay de Blainville (1777), Frédéric Cuvier (1773), Pierre Belon (1517), and Johann Hermann (1738).

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