GEOLOGIST

Léon Teisserenc de Bort

1855 - 1913

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Léon Philippe Teisserenc de Bort (5 November 1855 in Paris, France – 2 January 1913 in Cannes, France) was a French meteorologist and a pioneer in the field of aerology. Together with Richard Assmann (1845-1918), he is credited as co-discoverer of the stratosphere, as both men announced their discovery during the same time period in 1902. Teisserenc de Bort pioneered the use of unmanned instrumented balloons and was the first to identify the region in the atmosphere around 8-17 kilometers of height where the lapse rate reaches zero, known today as the tropopause. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Léon Teisserenc de Bort is the 38th most popular geologist (down from 31st in 2019), the 3,726th most popular biography from France (down from 3,565th in 2019) and the 2nd most popular French Geologist.

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Among GEOLOGISTS

Among geologists, Léon Teisserenc de Bort ranks 38 out of 90. Before him are Harry Hammond Hess, Alexander Karpinsky, Albert Heim, Maria Klenova, Ferdinand Zirkel, and Harry Rosenbusch. After him are Édouard Lartet, Barnum Brown, Adolphe d'Archiac, Gustav Heinrich Ralph von Koenigswald, Joachim Barrande, and Hiroo Kanamori.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1855, Léon Teisserenc de Bort ranks 64. Before him are Hüseyin Hilmi Pasha, Eugène Boch, Nataliya Kobrynska, Princess Marie of Prussia, Marie-Joseph Lagrange, and Stevan Sremac. After him are Abd al-Rahman al-Kawakibi, Tommaso Tittoni, Amandus Adamson, Arnold Mendelssohn, José Malhoa, and Erik Werenskiold. Among people deceased in 1913, Léon Teisserenc de Bort ranks 62. Before him are E. Pauline Johnson, Hermann, Prince of Hohenlohe-Langenburg, Jacob Brønnum Scavenius Estrup, Ralph Rose, Seth Carlo Chandler, and Felix Draeseke. After him are Gheorghe Grigore Cantacuzino, Heinrich Martin Weber, Étienne Laspeyres, Konstantinos Tsiklitiras, Hugo Winckler, and Heinrich XIV, Prince Reuss Younger Line.

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In France

Among people born in France, Léon Teisserenc de Bort ranks 3,726 out of 6,770. Before him are Charb (1967), René Llense (1913), Samir Nasri (1987), Catherine Frot (1956), Isaac René Guy le Chapelier (1754), and Madeleine Renaud (1900). After him are Roger Ducret (1888), Édouard Lartet (1801), Pierre Schoendoerffer (1928), Gérard Lenorman (1945), Charles-Antoine Coypel (1694), and Maurice Paléologue (1859).

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Among GEOLOGISTS In France

Among geologists born in France, Léon Teisserenc de Bort ranks 2. Before him are Déodat Gratet de Dolomieu (1750). After him are Édouard Lartet (1801), Adolphe d'Archiac (1802), Joachim Barrande (1799), Alfred Lacroix (1863), and Marcel Alexandre Bertrand (1847).

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