BIOLOGIST

René Lesson

1794 - 1849

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René Primevère Lesson (20 March 1794 – 28 April 1849) was a French surgeon, naturalist, ornithologist, and herpetologist. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. René Lesson is the 81st most popular biologist (up from 374th in 2019), the 717th most popular biography from France (up from 2,966th in 2019) and the 15th most popular French Biologist.

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Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, René Lesson ranks 81 out of 1,097. Before him are Alexander Oparin, Michael Houghton, Max Theiler, Richard Owen, Ralph M. Steinman, and Archibald Hill. After him are Werner Arber, Jules A. Hoffmann, Matthias Jakob Schleiden, Hans Spemann, Herman Boerhaave, and August Weismann.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1794, René Lesson ranks 2. Before him is Antonio López de Santa Anna. After him are Elias Magnus Fries, Matthew C. Perry, Cornelius Vanderbilt, Infante Francisco de Paula, Duke of Cádiz, Theobald Boehm, Wilhelm Müller, Carl Friedrich Philipp von Martius, Józef Bem, Ignaz Moscheles, and William Whewell. Among people deceased in 1849, René Lesson ranks 13. Before him are Anne Brontë, William II of the Netherlands, Sándor Petőfi, France Prešeren, Johann Wolfgang Döbereiner, and Charles Albert of Sardinia. After him are Şehzade Abdullah, Heonjong of Joseon, Anita Garibaldi, Giuseppe Caspar Mezzofanti, Otto Nicolai, and Juliette Récamier.

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In France

Among people born in France, René Lesson ranks 717 out of 6,770. Before him are François Fénelon (1651), Louis Philippe II, Duke of Orléans (1747), Alfred de Musset (1810), Jules Grévy (1807), René Lacoste (1904), and Jean Parisot de Valette (1494). After him are Ausonius (310), Eugène Edine Pottier (1816), Léonin (1135), Vincent Auriol (1884), Émile Picard (1856), and Sebastian Brant (1458).

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Among BIOLOGISTS In France

Among biologists born in France, René Lesson ranks 15. Before him are François Jacob (1920), Roger Guillemin (1924), René Antoine Ferchault de Réaumur (1683), Jean Dausset (1916), Adelbert von Chamisso (1781), and Antoine Laurent de Jussieu (1748). After him are Étienne Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire (1772), Charles Lucien Bonaparte (1803), Pierre André Latreille (1762), Jean-Henri Fabre (1823), Joseph Pitton de Tournefort (1656), and Aimé Bonpland (1773).

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