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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. Buffon published thirty-six quarto volumes of his Histoire Naturelle during his lifetime, with additional volumes based on his notes and further research being published in the two decades following his death. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon is the 19th most popular biologist, the 277th most popular biography from France (up from 321st in 2019) and the 3rd 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 19 out of 1,097. Before him are Robert Edwards, Robert Brown, Georges Cuvier, George Beadle, Alfred Russel Wallace, and Macfarlane Burnet. After him are Élie Metchnikoff, Thomas Hunt Morgan, Jules Bordet, Edward Tatum, Yoshinori Ohsumi, and John Boyd Orr.

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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 Henry Fielding, Louis I of Spain, Frederick, Prince of Wales, Louis-Michel van Loo, Louis, Duke of Brittany, Sir John Pringle, 1st Baronet, Ernest Frederick II, Duke of Saxe-Hildburghausen, and Moshe Chaim Luzzatto. Among people deceased in 1788, Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon ranks 2. Before him is Charles III of Spain. After him are Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach, Thomas Gainsborough, Giovanni Antonio Scopoli, Charles Edward Stuart, Maurice Quentin de La Tour, Jean-François de Galaup, comte de Lapérouse, Johann Georg Hamann, Nicole-Reine Lepaute, José, Prince of Brazil, and Infante Gabriel of Spain.

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In France

Among people born in France, Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon ranks 277 out of 6,770. Before him are Élisabeth Vigée Le Brun (1755), Henri de Saint-Simon (1760), Jean Marais (1913), Louis, Dauphin of France (1729), Charles de Batz de Castelmore d'Artagnan (1611), and Jean-Baptiste Colbert (1619). After him are Philip V of France (1293), Honoré Daumier (1808), Prosper Mérimée (1803), François Couperin (1668), Philippa of Hainault (1314), and Philip the Good (1396).

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Among BIOLOGISTS In France

Among biologists born in France, Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon ranks 3. Before him are Jean-Baptiste Lamarck (1744), and Georges Cuvier (1769). After him are Louis Jean Pierre Vieillot (1748), Luc Montagnier (1932), Charles Richet (1850), André Michel Lwoff (1902), Françoise Barré-Sinoussi (1947), François Jacob (1920), Roger Guillemin (1924), René Antoine Ferchault de Réaumur (1683), and Jean Dausset (1916).

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