BIOLOGIST

Alain Bombard

1924 - 2005

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Alain Bombard (French pronunciation: [alɛ̃ bɔ̃baʁ]; Paris, 27 October 1924 – Paris, 19 July 2005) was a French biologist, physician and politician famous for sailing in a small boat across the Atlantic Ocean without provision. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Alain Bombard has received more than 149,066 page views. His biography is available in 21 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 20 in 2019). Alain Bombard is the 427th most popular biologist (down from 269th in 2019), the 3,198th most popular biography from France (down from 2,402nd in 2019) and the 55th most popular French Biologist.

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Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, Alain Bombard ranks 427 out of 1,097. Before him are Heinrich Wilhelm Schott, Lucien Quélet, Juan Ignacio Molina, Prince Maximilian of Wied-Neuwied, Frédéric Cuvier, and Carl Alexander Clerck. After him are Georg von Langsdorff, Göran Wahlenberg, Henrik Steffens, Jacob Georg Agardh, Olof Swartz, and Paul Friedrich August Ascherson.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1924, Alain Bombard ranks 195. Before him are Isadore Singer, Maurice Karnaugh, Rudolf Barshai, Prince Alexander of Yugoslavia, Marc Ferro, and Nina Foch. After him are José Donoso, S. R. Nathan, Deke Slayton, Antoine Cuissard, Patricia Kennedy Lawford, and Pierre Sinibaldi. Among people deceased in 2005, Alain Bombard ranks 131. Before him are Vincent Gigante, Sergio Endrigo, Gordon Gould, Raoul Bott, Jimmy Smith, and Suzanne Flon. After him are Zainab al Ghazali, Jacques Villeret, Alexander Gomelsky, Milorad Pavić, Ronald Golias, and Eddie Guerrero.

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In France

Among people born in France, Alain Bombard ranks 3,198 out of 6,770. Before him are Jean-Joseph, Marquis Dessolles (1767), Charles Blanc (1813), Jacques Marquette (1637), Suzanne Flon (1918), Gustave Schlumberger (1844), and Jean-Baptiste-Joseph Gobel (1727). After him are Marie I, Countess of Boulogne (1136), Gaspard Ulliel (1984), Joseph Joffo (1931), Ousmane Dembélé (1997), Tony Robert-Fleury (1837), and Charles Jean Marie Barbaroux (1767).

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Among BIOLOGISTS In France

Among biologists born in France, Alain Bombard ranks 55. Before him are Félix Vicq-d'Azyr (1748), Louis Jean Pierre Vieillot (1748), Adrien-Henri de Jussieu (1797), Guillaume Rondelet (1507), Lucien Quélet (1832), and Frédéric Cuvier (1773). After him are Amédée Louis Michel le Peletier, comte de Saint-Fargeau (1770), Alfred Grandidier (1836), Gabriel Bibron (1805), Louis-Jean-Marie Daubenton (1716), André Marie Constant Duméril (1774), and Camille Guérin (1872).

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