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BIOLOGIST

Pierre Belon

1517 - 1564

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Pierre Belon (1517–1564) was a French traveller, naturalist, writer and diplomat. Like many others of the Renaissance period, he studied and wrote on a range of topics including ichthyology, ornithology, botany, comparative anatomy, architecture and Egyptology. He is sometimes known as Pierre Belon du Mans, or, in the Latin in which his works appeared, as Petrus Bellonius Cenomanus. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Pierre Belon has received more than 80,309 page views. His biography is available in 24 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 22 in 2019). Pierre Belon is the 216th most popular biologist (up from 246th in 2019), the 1,973rd most popular biography from France (up from 2,127th in 2019) and the 27th most popular French Biologist.

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Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, Pierre Belon ranks 216 out of 841Before him are David Baltimore, Otto Wilhelm Hermann von Abich, Elisabeth Noelle-Neumann, Georges J. F. Köhler, Willi Hennig, and Thomas Browne. After him are Michael Rosbash, Bernard Germain de Lacépède, Michael W. Young, Erik Acharius, Carl Ludwig Willdenow, and Adolf Engler.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1517, Pierre Belon ranks 8Before him are Emperor Ōgimachi, Gioseffo Zarlino, Francis I, Duke of Lorraine, Antoine Perrenot de Granvelle, Li Shizhen, and Frances Grey, Duchess of Suffolk. After him are Rembert Dodoens, Peter Ernst I von Mansfeld-Vorderort, Henry Grey, 1st Duke of Suffolk, and Jacques Pelletier du Mans. Among people deceased in 1564, Pierre Belon ranks 5Before him are Michelangelo, John Calvin, Ferdinand I, Holy Roman Emperor, and Andreas Vesalius. After him are Rani Durgavati, Charles Estienne, Theodore Bibliander, Giovanni da Udine, and Maurice Scève.

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In France

Among people born in France, Pierre Belon ranks 1,973 out of 6,011Before him are Louis-Michel van Loo (1707), Léon Brillouin (1889), Marie-Christine Barrault (1944), Nicholas Romanov, Prince of Russia (1922), Henri Grégoire (1750), and Guy de Rothschild (1909). After him are Yann Arthus-Bertrand (1946), Jacques Claude Marie Vincent de Gournay (1712), Jean-Pierre Beltoise (1937), Peter II of Courtenay (1155), Louis-Joseph de Montcalm (1712), and Édouard Séguin (1812).

Among BIOLOGISTS In France

Among biologists born in France, Pierre Belon ranks 27Before him are Aimé Bonpland (1773), Emmanuelle Charpentier (1968), Antoine Béchamp (1816), Michel Adanson (1727), Pierre André Latreille (1762), and Jérôme Lejeune (1926). After him are Bernard Germain de Lacépède (1756), Louis Jean Pierre Vieillot (1748), Félix d'Herelle (1873), Anselme Gaëtan Desmarest (1784), Alphonse Pyramus de Candolle (1806), and Johann Hermann (1738).