BIOLOGIST

Bernard Heuvelmans

1916 - 2001

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Bernard Heuvelmans (10 October 1916 – 22 August 2001) was a Belgian-French scientist, explorer, researcher, and writer probably best known, along with Scottish-American biologist Ivan T. Sanderson, as a founding figure in the pseudoscience and subculture of cryptozoology. His 1958 book On the Track of Unknown Animals (originally published in French in 1955 as Sur la Piste des Bêtes Ignorées) is often regarded as one of the most influential cryptozoology texts. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Bernard Heuvelmans is the 783rd most popular biologist (down from 670th in 2019), the 4,232nd most popular biography from France (down from 4,218th in 2019) and the 108th most popular French Biologist.

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Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, Bernard Heuvelmans ranks 783 out of 1,097. Before him are Neil Campbell, Angela Piskernik, Stephen Schneider, Émil Goeldi, Karl Moritz Schumann, and Johann Natterer. After him are Karl Julius Perleb, Michel Félix Dunal, Zofia Kielan-Jaworowska, Eduard Oscar Schmidt, Josephine Kablick, and Johan Lange.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1916, Bernard Heuvelmans ranks 203. Before him are Eugene McCarthy, Frederick C. Weyand, Guglielmo Gabetto, Nancye Wynne Bolton, Einar Englund, and Evelyn Keyes. After him are Franco Fabrizi, Lou Thesz, Rostislav Alexeyev, Arie van Vliet, Runer Jonsson, and Dinah Shore. Among people deceased in 2001, Bernard Heuvelmans ranks 208. Before him are Eudora Welty, Gordon R. Dickson, Franco Rasetti, Arturo Uslar Pietri, Anne Morrow Lindbergh, and Nancye Wynne Bolton. After him are Joe Fagan, Mongo Beti, Arie van Vliet, Hani Hanjour, R. K. Narayan, and Marwan al-Shehhi.

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In France

Among people born in France, Bernard Heuvelmans ranks 4,232 out of 6,770. Before him are Fernand Courty (1862), Yves Giraud-Cabantous (1904), Louis Henri Boussenard (1847), Ernest Labrousse (1895), Colette Besson (1946), and Dominique Lavanant (1944). After him are Chantal Lauby (1948), Michel Félix Dunal (1789), Sylvie Guillem (1965), Andrée Brunet (1901), Georges Carpentier (1894), and Kalidou Koulibaly (1991).

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Among BIOLOGISTS In France

Among biologists born in France, Bernard Heuvelmans ranks 108. Before him are Nicaise Auguste Desvaux (1784), Sabin Berthelot (1794), Élie-Abel Carrière (1818), Louis-Jean-Marie Daubenton (1716), Emmanuel Drake del Castillo (1855), and Édouard Spach (1801). After him are Michel Félix Dunal (1789), Émile Blanchard (1819), Félix Édouard Guérin-Méneville (1799), Jules Pierre Rambur (1801), Aimée Antoinette Camus (1879), and André Thouin (1746).

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