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Rolf Singer

1906 - 1994

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Rolf Singer (June 23, 1906 – January 18, 1994) was a German mycologist and taxonomist of gilled mushrooms (agarics). He wrote the book "The Agaricales in Modern Taxonomy". He fled to various countries during the Nazi period, pursuing mycology in the Soviet Union, Argentina, and finally the United States, as mycologist at the Field Museum in Chicago. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Rolf Singer is the 549th most popular biologist (up from 615th in 2019), the 3,448th most popular biography from Germany (up from 4,130th in 2019) and the 106th most popular German Biologist.

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Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, Rolf Singer ranks 549 out of 1,097. Before him are Eugen Fischer, Johann Friedrich Klotzsch, João de Loureiro, Günther Beck von Mannagetta und Lerchenau, Ernst Rudolf von Trautvetter, and Katsuko Saruhashi. After him are Claude Thomas Alexis Jordan, Joseph Paul Gaimard, George Newbold Lawrence, Marie Jules César Savigny, Emilie Snethlage, and Casimir de Candolle.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1906, Rolf Singer ranks 186. Before him are William J. Brennan Jr., Igor Moiseyev, Sergei Gerasimov, Harry Hammond Hess, Paul Sacher, and Nils Axelsson. After him are Ulanhu, Fazıl Küçük, Ango Sakaguchi, Agniya Barto, Olena Teliha, and Jacqueline Cochran. Among people deceased in 1994, Rolf Singer ranks 166. Before him are Phoumi Vongvichit, John Edward Williams, Mehmed Orhan, Rossano Brazzi, Zail Singh, and Nick Cravat. After him are Cyprien Ntaryamira, Oldřich Černík, Paul Grimault, Boris Yegorov, Givi Chokheli, and Igor Chislenko.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Rolf Singer ranks 3,450 out of 7,253. Before him are Margravine Elisabeth Sophie of Brandenburg (1674), Daniel Gottlob Türk (1750), Rudi Gutendorf (1926), Hans Talhoffer (1420), Heinrich Hübschmann (1848), and Hugo Schiff (1834). After him are Johann Ernst Glück (1652), Manfred Weber (1972), Friedrich Christiansen (1879), Heinrich Karl Brugsch (1827), Ludwig Richter (1803), and Princess Amelia of Great Britain (1711).

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Among BIOLOGISTS In Germany

Among biologists born in Germany, Rolf Singer ranks 106. Before him are Eduard August von Regel (1815), Princess Therese of Bavaria (1850), Ernst Schäfer (1910), Johann Jakob Bernhardi (1774), Eugen Fischer (1874), and Johann Friedrich Klotzsch (1805). After him are Emilie Snethlage (1868), Carl Ludwig Koch (1778), Ludwig Diels (1874), Johann Friedrich Naumann (1780), Karl Möbius (1825), and Alwin Berger (1871).

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