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BIOLOGIST

George Albert Boulenger

1858 - 1937

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George Albert Boulenger (19 October 1858 – 23 November 1937) was a Belgian-British zoologist who described and gave scientific names to over 2,000 new animal species, chiefly fish, reptiles, and amphibians. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of George Albert Boulenger has received more than 139,398 page views. His biography is available in 33 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 29 in 2019). George Albert Boulenger is the 518th most popular biologist (up from 520th in 2019), the 470th most popular biography from Belgium (down from 454th in 2019) and the 6th most popular Belgian Biologist.

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Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, George Albert Boulenger ranks 518 out of 841Before him are Charles David Keeling, Heinrich Schrader, Ernst Rudolf von Trautvetter, David Starr Jordan, Johan Ernst Gunnerus, and Rudolf Schlechter. After him are Emil Racoviță, Richard Bowdler Sharpe, Eduard August von Regel, George Robert Waterhouse, Carl Ludwig Koch, and C. L. Gloger.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1858, George Albert Boulenger ranks 88Before him are Georgi Todorov, Eduard von Toll, Agnes Baden-Powell, Oskar Minkowski, José Miguel Gómez, and Heinrich Zille. After him are Yukio Ozaki, Edmond Aman-Jean, Heinrich XXVII, Prince Reuss Younger Line, Edward M. House, Hans Meyer, and Beatrice Webb. Among people deceased in 1937, George Albert Boulenger ranks 108Before him are Ilya Ilf, Camillo Berneri, Felix Hamrin, Carlo Rosselli, Ahmad Javad, and Victor Laloux. After him are Mykhaylo Semenko, Max Carl Wilhelm Weber, Felix Graf von Bothmer, Mikheil Javakhishvili, Alexander Chayanov, and Lyubomir Miletich.

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In Belgium

Among people born in Belgium, George Albert Boulenger ranks 470 out of 1,019Before him are Charles Jean de la Vallée Poussin (1866), Philippe van Lansberge (1561), Daniel Van Buyten (1978), Henri Pousseur (1929), Jan Fabre (1958), and René Vandereycken (1953). After him are Arnold Badjou (1909), Marcel Kint (1914), Georges Berger (1918), Jean Duvieusart (1900), Romain Maes (1912), and Christl Cranz (1914).

Among BIOLOGISTS In Belgium

Among biologists born in Belgium, George Albert Boulenger ranks 6Before him are Jules Bordet (1870), Albert Claude (1899), Barthélemy Charles Joseph Dumortier (1797), Henri Milne-Edwards (1800), and Edouard Van Beneden (1846). After him are Marie-Anne Libert (1782), Émile Auguste Joseph De Wildeman (1866), and Peter Piot (1949).