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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 777,576 page views. His biography is available in 60 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 59 in 2019). Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon is the 20th most popular biologist (up from 32nd in 2019), the 321st most popular biography from France (up from 501st in 2019) and the 4th 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 20 out of 841. Before him are Thomas Hunt Morgan, Alfred Russel Wallace, Richard Dawkins, Georges Cuvier, Francis Crick, and Robert Brown. After him are Thomas Henry Huxley, Maria Sibylla Merian, Rachel Carson, Élie Metchnikoff, Trofim Lysenko, and Barbara McClintock.

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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, Duke of Brittany, Louis-Michel van Loo, 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, Jean-François de Galaup, comte de Lapérouse, Maurice Quentin de La Tour, Johann Georg Hamann, Giovanni Antonio Scopoli, Armand de Vignerot du Plessis, Infante Gabriel of Spain, and José, Prince of Brazil.

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In France

Among people born in France, Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon ranks 321 out of 6,011. Before him are Emmanuel Joseph Sieyès (1748), Henri Cartier-Bresson (1908), Françoise Sagan (1935), Ferdinand de Lesseps (1805), Carlo Buonaparte (1746), and Guillaume de Machaut (1300). After him are Sophie Germain (1776), Paul Valéry (1871), Antonin Artaud (1896), Honoré Gabriel Riqueti, comte de Mirabeau (1749), Denis Papin (1647), and Marcel Marceau (1923).

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Among BIOLOGISTS In France

Among biologists born in France, Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon ranks 4. Before him are Jean-Baptiste Lamarck (1744), Luc Montagnier (1932), and Georges Cuvier (1769). After him are Charles Richet (1850), Françoise Barré-Sinoussi (1947), René Antoine Ferchault de Réaumur (1683), Adelbert von Chamisso (1781), Jean-Henri Fabre (1823), François Jacob (1920), Roger Guillemin (1924), and Antoine Laurent de Jussieu (1748).

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