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Palisot de Beauvois

1752 - 1820

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Ambroise Marie François Joseph Palisot, Baron de Beauvois (27 July 1752, in Arras – 21 January 1820, in Paris) was a French naturalist and zoologist. Palisot collected insects in Oware, Benin, Saint Domingue, and the United States, from 1786 to 1797. Trained as a botanist, Palisot published a significant entomological paper entitled, "Insectes Receuillis en Afrique et en Amerique". Together with Frederick Valentine Melsheimer, he was one of the first entomologists to collect and describe American insects. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Palisot de Beauvois is the 903rd most popular biologist (down from 839th in 2019), the 4,612th most popular biography from France (up from 4,705th in 2019) and the 124th most popular French Biologist.

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Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, Palisot de Beauvois ranks 903 out of 1,097. Before him are Ángel Cabrera, Alfred G. Knudson, Marmaduke Tunstall, Otto Bütschli, Johannes Schmidt, and Christian Friedrich Ecklon. After him are Sereno Watson, Louis Fraser, Joseph Banks Rhine, Joseph Barcroft, Keith Campbell, and Carl H. Eigenmann.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1752, Palisot de Beauvois ranks 33. Before him are Johann Friedrich Reichardt, Frances Burney, Maurice d'Elbée, Antonio Scarpa, Johann Gottfried Eichhorn, and Albrecht Thaer. After him are Barnaba Oriani, Gouverneur Morris, John Graves Simcoe, George Rogers Clark, and Philip Freneau. Among people deceased in 1820, Palisot de Beauvois ranks 40. Before him are Claudine Picardet, Frederick V, Landgrave of Hesse-Homburg, Louise Caroline of Hochberg, Nicolaus Michael Oppel, Alexis Thérèse Petit, and Charles Blagden. After him are Benjamin Henry Latrobe, Stephen Decatur, William Ellery, and Henry Grattan.

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In France

Among people born in France, Palisot de Beauvois ranks 4,612 out of 6,770. Before him are Emma Shapplin (1974), Hatem Ben Arfa (1987), Gotlib (1934), Louis Chaillot (1914), Jean Cau (1925), and Arlette Laguiller (1940). After him are Adil Rami (1985), Sabine Weiss (1924), Jo-Wilfried Tsonga (1985), Sébastien Haller (1994), Emma Mackey (1996), and Stéphane Guivarc'h (1970).

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Among BIOLOGISTS In France

Among biologists born in France, Palisot de Beauvois ranks 124. Before him are Wilhelm Philippe Schimper (1808), Jules Verreaux (1807), Édouard Ménétries (1802), Édouard Louis Trouessart (1842), Théodore Monod (1902), and Paul Henri Lecomte (1856). After him are François Gagnepain (1866), Gaston Bonnier (1853), Pierre Chambon (1931), Nicole Marthe Le Douarin (1930), Elizabeth F. Neufeld (1928), and Jacques Miller (1931).

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