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BIOLOGIST

Bernard Heuvelmans

1916 - 2001

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Bernard Heuvelmans (10 October 1916 – 22 August 2001) was a Belgian-French scientist, explorer, researcher, and writer probably best known, along with Scottish-American biologist Ivan T. Sanderson, as a founding figure in the pseudoscience and subculture of cryptozoology. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Bernard Heuvelmans has received more than 115,807 page views. His biography is available in 15 different languages on Wikipedia. Bernard Heuvelmans is the 504th most popular biologist (up from 561st in 2019), the 3,555th most popular biography from France (down from 3,436th in 2019) and the 74th most popular French Biologist.

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Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, Bernard Heuvelmans ranks 504 out of 841Before him are Franz von Paula Schrank, Johann Heinrich Blasius, Agostino Bassi, Jean-Étienne Guettard, George Allman, and Josephine Kablick. After him are Anna Russell, Friedrich Ernst Ludwig von Fischer, Patrick Manson, Alwin Berger, Juliane Koepcke, and Hugo von Mohl.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1916, Bernard Heuvelmans ranks 153Before him are Jacques Georges, Carlo Rustichelli, Herbert Norkus, Françoise Giroud, José López Rega, and Lars Korvald. After him are Sudirman, Anne Hébert, Evelyn Keyes, Antonio Buero Vallejo, Giuseppe Taddei, and Gino Bianco. Among people deceased in 2001, Bernard Heuvelmans ranks 161Before him are Micheline Ostermeyer, Donella Meadows, Paul Magloire, Ernst Baier, Aldo Olivieri, and William Masters. After him are Mordecai Richler, Gordon R. Dickson, Javier Urruticoechea, Eileen Heckart, Ardito Desio, and Robert W. Floyd.

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In France

Among people born in France, Bernard Heuvelmans ranks 3,555 out of 6,011Before him are Victor Laloux (1850), Princess Eugénie of Greece and Denmark (1910), Maxime Rodinson (1915), Yvonne Loriod (1924), Coline Serreau (1947), and Claude Gaspard Bachet de Méziriac (1581). After him are Frédéric Mitterrand (1947), Bernard-Marie Koltès (1948), Hélène Grimaud (1969), Dominique Wilkins (1960), Jules Bianchi (1989), and Roland Dumas (1922).

Among BIOLOGISTS In France

Among biologists born in France, Bernard Heuvelmans ranks 74Before him are René Dubos (1901), Sébastien Vaillant (1669), Achille Valenciennes (1794), Jules Émile Planchon (1823), Jean Baptiste Bory de Saint-Vincent (1778), and Jean-Étienne Guettard (1715). After him are Eugène Simon (1848), Jean de Thévenot (1633), Henri Cassini (1781), René Maire (1878), Frédéric Cuvier (1773), and Paul Bert (1833).