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Pehr Kalm

1716 - 1779

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Pehr Kalm (6 March 1716 – 16 November 1779), also known as Peter Kalm, was a Swedish-Finnish explorer, botanist, naturalist, and agricultural economist. He was one of the most important apostles of Carl Linnaeus. In 1747, he was commissioned by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences to travel to the North American colonies in order to bring back seeds and plants that might be useful to agriculture. Among his many scientific accomplishments, Kalm can be credited with the first description of Niagara Falls written by a trained scientist. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Pehr Kalm is the 506th most popular biologist (down from 419th in 2019), the 456th most popular biography from Sweden (down from 416th in 2019) and the 20th most popular Swedish Biologist.

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Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, Pehr Kalm ranks 506 out of 1,097. Before him are Johann Hedwig, Paul Friedrich August Ascherson, Achille Richard, William Hudson, Alphonse Milne-Edwards, and Dmitry Belyayev. After him are Charles Louis L'Héritier de Brutelle, Christian von Steven, Robert H. MacArthur, Franz Wilhelm Junghuhn, Carl Axel Magnus Lindman, and Johann Jakob Heckel.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1716, Pehr Kalm ranks 16. Before him are Yuan Mei, Antonio de Ulloa, Thomas Gray, Jean-Jacques Barthélemy, Luis Egidio Meléndez, and Eugenios Voulgaris. After him are Giovanni Battista Beccaria, Jean François de Saint-Lambert, Carl Fredrik Adelcrantz, Louis-Jean-Marie Daubenton, Otto von Münchhausen, and George Germain, 1st Viscount Sackville. Among people deceased in 1779, Pehr Kalm ranks 15. Before him are David Garrick, William Boyce, Tommaso Traetta, Louis de Jaucourt, Heinrich XXIV, Count Reuss of Ebersdorf, and Alessandro Albani. After him are Claude Bourgelat, Mohammad Ali Khan Zand, Johannes Burman, Kosmas the Aetolian, Abol-Fath Khan Zand, and Thomas Hudson.

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In Sweden

Among people born in Sweden, Pehr Kalm ranks 456 out of 1,879. Before him are Katarina Taikon (1932), Anna Palm de Rosa (1859), Gunilla Bergström (1942), Gösta Ekman (1890), Gösta Pettersson (1940), and Marika Green (1943). After him are Carl Axel Magnus Lindman (1856), Victoria Silvstedt (1974), Bengt Gustavsson (1928), Johan Andreas Murray (1740), Wilhelm Peterson-Berger (1867), and Robert Themptander (1844).

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Among BIOLOGISTS In Sweden

Among biologists born in Sweden, Pehr Kalm ranks 20. Before him are Carl Alexander Clerck (1710), Daniel Solander (1733), Olof Swartz (1760), Carl Jakob Sundevall (1801), Göran Wahlenberg (1780), and Peter Artedi (1705). After him are Carl Axel Magnus Lindman (1856), Johan Andreas Murray (1740), Charles De Geer (1720), Carl-Gustaf Rossby (1898), Nils Johan Andersson (1821), and Karl Rudolphi (1771).

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