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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. The Russian physiologist Ivan Pavlov (known for Pavlov's dogs) called him the "prophet of comparative anatomy". Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Pierre Belon is the 260th most popular biologist (down from 206th in 2019), the 1,853rd most popular biography from France (down from 1,776th in 2019) and the 33rd most popular French Biologist.

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Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, Pierre Belon ranks 260 out of 1,097. Before him are Martin Vahl, Henri Milne-Edwards, Charles Bell, Frédéric Cuvier, Eva Ekeblad, and Thomas Cavalier-Smith. After him are Barthélemy Charles Joseph Dumortier, Johann Heinrich Friedrich Link, David Goodall, Carl Sigismund Kunth, Friedrich Parrot, and Erik Pontoppidan.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1517, Pierre Belon ranks 10. Before him are Frances Grey, Duchess of Suffolk, Gioseffo Zarlino, Antoine Perrenot de Granvelle, Francis I, Duke of Lorraine, Rembert Dodoens, and Li Shizhen. After him are Peter Ernst I von Mansfeld-Vorderort, and Jacques Pelletier du Mans. Among people deceased in 1564, Pierre Belon ranks 5. Before him are Michelangelo, John Calvin, Ferdinand I, Holy Roman Emperor, and Andreas Vesalius. After him are Matrakçı Nasuh, Rani Durgavati, Sabina of Bavaria, Charles Estienne, Giovanni da Udine, Éléonore de Roye, and Theodore Bibliander.

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In France

Among people born in France, Pierre Belon ranks 1,853 out of 6,770. Before him are Corinne Cléry (1950), Charles of Valois, Duke of Berry (1446), Tomi Ungerer (1931), Philippe de Commines (1447), Gaston Planté (1834), and Warda Al-Jazairia (1939). After him are Princess Antoinette, Baroness of Massy (1920), Valentin Haüy (1745), Jean Hyppolite (1907), Jean Borotra (1898), Claude Brasseur (1936), and Jacques Chaban-Delmas (1915).

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Among BIOLOGISTS In France

Among biologists born in France, Pierre Belon ranks 33. Before him are Emmanuelle Charpentier (1968), Michel Adanson (1727), Alphonse Pyramus de Candolle (1806), Anselme Gaëtan Desmarest (1784), Henri Marie Ducrotay de Blainville (1777), and Frédéric Cuvier (1773). After him are Johann Hermann (1738), André Marie Constant Duméril (1774), René Louiche Desfontaines (1750), Isidore Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire (1805), Jean Victoir Audouin (1797), and Guillaume-Antoine Olivier (1756).

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