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Peter Simon Pallas

1741 - 1811

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Peter Simon Pallas FRS FRSE (22 September 1741 – 8 September 1811) was a Prussian zoologist, botanist, ethnographer, explorer, geographer, geologist, natural historian, and taxonomist. He studied natural sciences at various universities in early modern Germany and worked primarily in the Russian Empire between 1767 and 1810. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Peter Simon Pallas is the 45th most popular biologist (up from 46th in 2019), the 375th most popular biography from Germany (up from 524th in 2019) and the 4th most popular German Biologist.

Pallas was a German naturalist who traveled to Russia in 1766 to study the flora and fauna. He is most famous for his discovery of the Amur Leopard, which he found in the Russian Far East.

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Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, Peter Simon Pallas ranks 45 out of 1,097. Before him are Rachel Carson, Albert Claude, Christian de Duve, Karl von Frisch, Ada Yonath, and Richard Henderson. After him are Harald zur Hausen, Santiago Ramón y Cajal, Nikolaas Tinbergen, Tomas Lindahl, Irwin Rose, and Charles Richet.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1741, Peter Simon Pallas ranks 2. Before him is Joseph II, Holy Roman Emperor. After him are Princess Isabella of Parma, Angelica Kauffman, André Grétry, Henry Fuseli, Pierre Choderlos de Laclos, Emperor Momozono, Benedict Arnold, Jean-François de Galaup, comte de Lapérouse, Johann Kaspar Lavater, and Andrea Luchesi. Among people deceased in 1811, Peter Simon Pallas ranks 2. Before him is Heinrich von Kleist. After him are Louis Antoine de Bougainville, Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla, Charles Frederick, Grand Duke of Baden, Dositej Obradović, Jean Chalgrin, Nevil Maskelyne, Gaspar Melchor de Jovellanos, Eliza Poe, Thomas Percy, and Augustus FitzRoy, 3rd Duke of Grafton.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Peter Simon Pallas ranks 375 out of 7,253. Before him are Thomas Müntzer (1489), Hermann Müller (1876), Adolf Dassler (1900), Sophie Scholl (1921), Wilhelm Grimm (1786), and Emil Kraepelin (1856). After him are Franz Halder (1884), George Paget Thomson (1892), Mayer Amschel Rothschild (1744), Pope Victor II (1018), Regiomontanus (1436), and Joseph Beuys (1921).

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Among BIOLOGISTS In Germany

Among biologists born in Germany, Peter Simon Pallas ranks 4. Before him are Ernst Haeckel (1834), Maria Sibylla Merian (1647), and Albrecht Kossel (1853). After him are Harald zur Hausen (1936), Theodor Schwann (1810), Matthias Jakob Schleiden (1804), Hans Spemann (1869), August Weismann (1834), Katherine Oppenheimer (1910), Ernst Mayr (1904), and Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard (1942).

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