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Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon

1707 - 1788

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Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon (French: [ʒɔʁʒ lwi ləklɛʁ kɔ̃t də byfɔ̃]; 7 September 1707 – 16 April 1788) was a French naturalist, mathematician, and cosmologist. He held the position of intendant (director) at the Jardin du Roi, now called the Jardin des plantes. Buffon's works influenced the next two generations of naturalists, including two prominent French scientists Jean-Baptiste Lamarck and Georges Cuvier. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon has received more than 839,043 page views. His biography is available in 65 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 60 in 2019). Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon is the 19th most popular biologist (up from 20th in 2019), the 321st most popular biography from France and the 3rd most popular French Biologist.

Georges-Louis Leclerc, comte de Buffon is most famous for his work Histoire Naturelle, which was a collection of 36 volumes on the natural sciences.

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Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon ranks 19 out of 1,097. Before him are Karl Landsteiner, Alfred Russel Wallace, Francis Crick, Thomas Hunt Morgan, Thomas Henry Huxley, and Élie Metchnikoff. After him are Luc Montagnier, Robert Brown, Richard Dawkins, Maria Sibylla Merian, Conrad Gessner, and Jules Bordet.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1707, Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon ranks 4. Before him are Carl Linnaeus, Leonhard Euler, and Carlo Goldoni. After him are Louis I of Spain, Frederick, Prince of Wales, Henry Fielding, Louis-Michel van Loo, Louis, Duke of Brittany, Moshe Chaim Luzzatto, Michel Corrette, and Charles Wesley. Among people deceased in 1788, Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon ranks 3. Before him are Charles III of Spain, and Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach. After him are Charles Edward Stuart, Thomas Gainsborough, Maurice Quentin de La Tour, Jean-François de Galaup, comte de Lapérouse, Johann Georg Hamann, Giovanni Antonio Scopoli, Armand de Vignerot du Plessis, José, Prince of Brazil, and Infante Gabriel of Spain.

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In France

Among people born in France, Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon ranks 321 out of 6,770. Before him are Gaspard-Gustave de Coriolis (1792), Georges Clemenceau (1841), Jean Gabin (1904), Alphonse Daudet (1840), Diane de Poitiers (1499), and Louis Joseph, Dauphin of France (1781). After him are Raynald of Châtillon (1123), Hyacinthe Rigaud (1659), Georges de La Tour (1593), Paul Valéry (1871), Elisabeth of Valois (1545), and Anne of Brittany (1477).

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Among BIOLOGISTS In France

Among biologists born in France, Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon ranks 3. Before him are Jean-Baptiste Lamarck (1744), and Georges Cuvier (1769). After him are Luc Montagnier (1932), Charles Richet (1850), Antoine Laurent de Jussieu (1748), Françoise Barré-Sinoussi (1947), René Antoine Ferchault de Réaumur (1683), Roger Guillemin (1924), Jean-Henri Fabre (1823), François Jacob (1920), and Adelbert von Chamisso (1781).

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