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Louis Dollo

1857 - 1931

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Louis Antoine Marie Joseph Dollo (Lille, 7 December 1857 – Brussels, 19 April 1931) was a Belgian palaeontologist, known for his work on dinosaurs. He also posited that evolution is not reversible, known as Dollo's law. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Louis Dollo has received more than 33,663 page views. His biography is available in 17 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 16 in 2019). Louis Dollo is the 184th most popular engineer (up from 186th in 2019), the 3,144th most popular biography from France (down from 2,949th in 2019) and the 32nd most popular French Engineer.

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Among ENGINEERS

Among engineers, Louis Dollo ranks 184 out of 323Before him are John Smeaton, Pierre Charles L'Enfant, Walter Hohmann, Michel Chevalier, Gotthilf Hagen, and Vladimir Petlyakov. After him are Agustín de Betancourt, Joseph Strauss, Nikolay Kamov, Gene Kranz, Jon Postel, and William Playfair.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1857, Louis Dollo ranks 78Before him are James Edward Keeler, Simon Hollósy, Joseph Larmor, Princess Elisabeth of Anhalt, Gabriela Zapolska, and Stojan Protić. After him are Alfred Bruneau, Albert Ballin, George Hendrik Breitner, Eva Bonnier, Henry Dudeney, and Shibli Nomani. Among people deceased in 1931, Louis Dollo ranks 75Before him are Rachel Bluwstein, Henri Mathias Berthelot, Frank Wigglesworth Clarke, Sukhdev Thapar, Dionysios Kasdaglis, and Viktor Dyk. After him are Bix Beiderbecke, Franz Schalk, Eugen Schmidt, Jacques Herbrand, Oskar Minkowski, and Teresa Claramunt Creus.

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In France

Among people born in France, Louis Dollo ranks 3,144 out of 6,011Before him are David Belle (1973), Christian Metz (1931), Renaud (1952), Charles de La Fosse (1636), René Daumal (1908), and Charles, Prince Napoléon (1950). After him are Louis Seigner (1903), Frédéric François-Marsal (1874), Henri Regnault (1843), Charles Laval (1862), Gustave Schlumberger (1844), and Reginald Garrigou-Lagrange (1877).

Among ENGINEERS In France

Among engineers born in France, Louis Dollo ranks 32Before him are Émile Levassor (1843), Arthur Morin (1795), Alphonse Pénaud (1850), Pierre-Paul Riquet (1609), Pierre Charles L'Enfant (1754), and Michel Chevalier (1806). After him are Evgeny Paton (1870), Adolphe Alphand (1817), Jacques Antoine Charles Bresse (1822), Pierre-François Bouchard (1771), Charles Renard (1847), and Benoît Fourneyron (1802).