BIOLOGIST

Walther Flemming

1843 - 1905

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Walther Flemming (21 April 1843 – 4 August 1905) was a German biologist and a founder of cytogenetics. He was born in Sachsenberg (now part of Schwerin) as the fifth child and only son of the psychiatrist Carl Friedrich Flemming (1799–1880) and his second wife, Auguste Winter. He graduated from the Gymnasium der Residenzstadt, where one of his colleagues and lifelong friends was writer Heinrich Seidel. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Walther Flemming is the 196th most popular biologist (down from 147th in 2019), the 1,211th most popular biography from Germany (down from 1,115th in 2019) and the 23rd most popular German Biologist.

Walther Flemming is most famous for his discovery of the cell nucleus.

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Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, Walther Flemming ranks 196 out of 1,097. Before him are Julian Huxley, Emmanuelle Charpentier, Alexander Georg von Bunge, Carl Linnaeus the Younger, Bruce Beutler, and Jack Horner. After him are Michel Adanson, Carl Ludwig Willdenow, Hermann Schlegel, Joseph Banks, Har Gobind Khorana, and César Milstein.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1843, Walther Flemming ranks 22. Before him are Colmar Freiherr von der Goltz, Infanta Maria Anna of Portugal, Richard Avenarius, Benito Pérez Galdós, Nicholas Alexandrovich, Tsesarevich of Russia, and Teófilo Braga. After him are Hermann Schwarz, Mariano Rampolla, Oscar Montelius, Henryk Siemiradzki, Princess Maria Clotilde of Savoy, and Hans Richter. Among people deceased in 1905, Walther Flemming ranks 16. Before him are Pierre Savorgnan de Brazza, Carl Wernicke, Prince Philippe, Count of Flanders, Albert Edelfelt, Élisée Reclus, and Leopold, Prince of Hohenzollern. After him are Josip Juraj Strossmayer, Per Teodor Cleve, Constantin Meunier, Anton Ažbe, Alphonse Allais, and Adolf Bastian.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Walther Flemming ranks 1,211 out of 7,253. Before him are Walter Kasper (1933), Franz Josef Strauss (1915), Hannah Höch (1889), Herbert Gille (1897), Gotthard of Hildesheim (960), and Frederick I, Grand Duke of Baden (1826). After him are Thomas Abbt (1738), Carl Ludwig Willdenow (1765), Hermann Schlegel (1804), Heinz Linge (1913), Prince Karl Anton August of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Beck (1727), and Otto of Bamberg (1060).

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Among BIOLOGISTS In Germany

Among biologists born in Germany, Walther Flemming ranks 23. Before him are Johann Friedrich Gmelin (1748), Bernard Katz (1911), Georg Wilhelm Steller (1709), Johann Christian Daniel von Schreber (1739), Johann Karl Wilhelm Illiger (1775), and Julius Richard Petri (1852). After him are Carl Ludwig Willdenow (1765), Hermann Schlegel (1804), Ludwig Reichenbach (1793), Hans Driesch (1867), Johann Matthäus Bechstein (1757), and Bert Sakmann (1942).

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