BIOLOGIST

Alain Bombard

1924 - 2005

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Alain Bombard (French pronunciation: [alɛ̃ bɔ̃baʁ]; Paris, 27 October 1924 – Paris, 19 July 2005) was a French biologist, physician and politician famous for sailing in a small boat across the Atlantic Ocean without provision. He theorized that a human being could very well survive the trip across the ocean without provisions and decided to test his theory himself in order to save thousands of lives of people lost at sea. He was a Member of the European Parliament from the Socialist Party for France from 1981 to 1994. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Alain Bombard is the 465th most popular biologist (down from 427th in 2019), the 3,047th most popular biography from France (up from 3,198th in 2019) and the 58th most popular French Biologist.

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Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, Alain Bombard ranks 465 out of 1,097. Before him are Francis Darwin, Anna Russell, Peter Artedi, Alexander Kovalevsky, Luther Burbank, and Marie Stopes. After him are William T. Stearn, Charles-François Brisseau de Mirbel, Richard Lydekker, Philipp Johann Ferdinand Schur, Prince Maximilian of Wied-Neuwied, and Salim Ali.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1924, Alain Bombard ranks 191. Before him are Gene Deitch, Alexander Matrosov, Guillermo Rodríguez, Aloísio Lorscheider, Ken Tyrrell, and Olivier Gendebien. After him are Abderrahmane Youssoufi, Idries Shah, Edward Cassidy, Josef Škvorecký, Johannes Mario Simmel, and Alexandre José Maria dos Santos. Among people deceased in 2005, Alain Bombard ranks 116. Before him are Frits Philips, Maurice Hilleman, Jair da Rosa Pinto, Maclyn McCarty, Tonino Delli Colli, and Sandra Dee. After him are Tilly Fleischer, Polina Astakhova, Edward Bunker, Link Wray, George Mikan, and Jef Raskin.

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In France

Among people born in France, Alain Bombard ranks 3,047 out of 6,770. Before him are Jack Lang (1939), Joanni Perronet (1877), Édouard Chavannes (1865), Louis, Duke of Vendôme (1612), Jean-Louis Debré (1944), and Louise Adélaïde d'Orléans (1698). After him are Albert Girard (1595), Guiraut Riquier (1230), Félix Gaillard (1919), Henri Helle (1873), Émilie de Villeneuve (1811), and André-Adolphe-Eugène Disdéri (1819).

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Among BIOLOGISTS In France

Among biologists born in France, Alain Bombard ranks 58. Before him are Eugène Simon (1848), Paul Gervais (1816), Félix Vicq-d'Azyr (1748), Adrien-Henri de Jussieu (1797), Henri Ernest Baillon (1827), and Antoine de Jussieu (1686). After him are Charles-François Brisseau de Mirbel (1776), Lucien Quélet (1832), Gabriel Bibron (1805), Jeanne Villepreux-Power (1794), Guillaume Rondelet (1507), and Achille Richard (1794).

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