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Pierre Edmond Boissier

1810 - 1885

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Pierre Edmond Boissier (25 May 1810 Geneva – 25 September 1885 Valeyres-sous-Rances) was a Swiss prominent botanist, explorer and mathematician. He was the son of Jacques Boissier (1784-1857) and Caroline Butini (1786-1836), daughter of Pierre Butini (1759-1838) a well-known physician and naturalist from Geneva. With his sister, Valérie Boissier (1813-1894), he received a strict education with lessons delivered in Italian and Latin. Edmond's interest in natural history stemmed from holidays in the company of his mother and his grandfather, Pierre Butini at Valeyres-sous-Rances. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Pierre Edmond Boissier is the 365th most popular biologist (down from 361st in 2019), the 228th most popular biography from Switzerland (up from 265th in 2019) and the 13th most popular Swiss Biologist.

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Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, Pierre Edmond Boissier ranks 365 out of 1,097. Before him are Friedrich Loeffler, Eugenius Warming, Humberto Maturana, Fritz Müller, Antoine Béchamp, and Constantine Samuel Rafinesque. After him are Jean René Constant Quoy, Olof Swartz, Joel Asaph Allen, Charles Plumier, Richard Bowdler Sharpe, and Otto Kuntze.

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Among people born in 1810, Pierre Edmond Boissier ranks 34. Before him are Ferenc Erkel, Jules Perrot, Antoine Thomson d'Abbadie, Ole Bull, Edward Blyth, and George Robert Waterhouse. After him are Hans Christian Lumbye, Wilhelm Marstrand, Wilhelm, Duke of Urach, Oliver Winchester, Karel Hynek Mácha, and Asa Gray. Among people deceased in 1885, Pierre Edmond Boissier ranks 33. Before him are Louis Riel, Friedrich Gustav Jakob Henle, Maximilian Maria, 7th Prince of Thurn and Taxis, Edwin Freiherr von Manteuffel, Thomas A. Hendricks, and George B. McClellan. After him are Franz Abt, Karamchand Gandhi, Nikolai Severtzov, Nikolay Danilevsky, Henri Dupuy de Lôme, and Henri Tresca.

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In Switzerland

Among people born in Switzerland, Pierre Edmond Boissier ranks 228 out of 1,015. Before him are Claude Nicollier (1944), Joseph Deiss (1946), Roberto Di Matteo (1970), Eugène Grasset (1845), Leonardo Conti (1900), and Simon Antoine Jean L'Huilier (1750). After him are Meyer Guggenheim (1828), Joanna of Pfirt (1300), Pierre Jeanneret (1896), George de Mestral (1907), Emil Brunner (1889), and Alois, Hereditary Prince of Liechtenstein (1968).

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Among BIOLOGISTS In Switzerland

Among biologists born in Switzerland, Pierre Edmond Boissier ranks 13. Before him are Louis Agassiz (1807), Alexander Agassiz (1835), Charles Bonnet (1720), Jakob Friedrich Ehrhart (1742), Albert von Kölliker (1817), and Johann Jakob von Tschudi (1818). After him are François-Alphonse Forel (1841), Josias Braun-Blanquet (1884), Abraham Trembley (1710), Oswald Heer (1809), Carl Meissner (1800), and Johann Bauhin (1541).

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