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Paul Henri Lecomte

1856 - 1934

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Paul Henri Lecomte (8 January 1856, in Saint-Nabord, Vosges – 12 June 1934, in Paris) was a French botanist. In 1884, after attaining a number of degrees, Lecomte became a professor at Lycée Saint-Louis in Paris. In addition to his teaching duties, he worked in the botany laboratory of the Muséum national d'histoire naturelle (French National Museum of Natural History) under Philippe van Tieghem. Lecomte obtained his doctorate in 1889 and subsequently took part in scientific expeditions to North Africa, Egypt, the Antilles, French Guiana and French Indo-China. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Paul Henri Lecomte is the 892nd most popular biologist (down from 828th in 2019), the 4,586th most popular biography from France (up from 4,682nd in 2019) and the 123rd most popular French Biologist.

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Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, Paul Henri Lecomte ranks 892 out of 1,097. Before him are Thomas Andrew Knight, Jakob Emanuel Lange, William Townsend Aiton, Tokiharu Abe, Peter Ascanius, and Johann August Ephraim Goeze. After him are Frederic Clements, Hugh Edwin Strickland, Benjamin Smith Barton, Alexander Alfonsovich Grossheim, Ángel Cabrera, and Alfred G. Knudson.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1856, Paul Henri Lecomte ranks 109. Before him are Gabrielle Réjane, Elbert Hubbard, Manuel Allendesalazar y Muñoz de Salazar, Jens Christian Christensen, Friedrich Kluge, and James Buchanan Duke. After him are Anton Aškerc, Wilhelm Geiger, Leon Benois, Yuly Shokalsky, Edward Bagnall Poulton, and Kenyon Cox. Among people deceased in 1934, Paul Henri Lecomte ranks 134. Before him are Toros Toramanian, Blind Blake, Orest Khvolson, Eduard Bagritsky, Manuel Márquez Sterling, and Mikhail Matyushin. After him are Claudio Williman, Cecilia Grierson, Andrés Héctor Carvallo, Davidson Black, Jiro Sato, and John Brinck.

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In France

Among people born in France, Paul Henri Lecomte ranks 4,586 out of 6,770. Before him are Alain Peyrefitte (1925), André Comte-Sponville (1952), Marguerite Audoux (1863), Eva Ionesco (1965), Roger Planchon (1931), and Walid Regragui (1975). After him are Pierre Coffin (1967), Adrien Rabiot (1995), Nina Companeez (1937), Louis Leterrier (1973), Jacques Jasmin (1798), and Claude Dagens (1940).

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Among BIOLOGISTS In France

Among biologists born in France, Paul Henri Lecomte ranks 123. Before him are Jean-Pierre Changeux (1936), Wilhelm Philippe Schimper (1808), Jules Verreaux (1807), Édouard Ménétries (1802), Édouard Louis Trouessart (1842), and Théodore Monod (1902). After him are Palisot de Beauvois (1752), François Gagnepain (1866), Gaston Bonnier (1853), Pierre Chambon (1931), Nicole Marthe Le Douarin (1930), and Elizabeth F. Neufeld (1928).

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