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Georges-Louis Leclerc, count de Buffon: Quick Facts

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Also Known As Georges-Louis Leclerc de Buffon • Georges-Louis Leclerc, count de Buffon • Georges-Louis Leclerc
Born September 7, 1707 • France
Died April 16, 1788 (aged 80) • Paris • France
Notable Works “Histoire naturelle, générale et particulière”

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Buffon, engraving by C. Baron after Drouais, 1761.
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Jean-Baptiste Lamarck
Jean-Baptiste Lamarck
French biologist
E.O. Wilson
E.O. Wilson
American biologist
Conrad Gesner.
Conrad Gesner
Swiss physician and naturalist
Swammerdam, Jan
Jan Swammerdam
Dutch naturalist
Beebe, William
William Beebe
American biologist and explorer
Painting by Albert Edelfelt showing Louis Pasteur in his laboratory, holding a glass flask and examining it intently, surrounded by scientific equipment on a workbench.
Louis Pasteur
French chemist and microbiologist
Portrait of French chemist Antoine Laurent Lavoisier, shown in formal 18th-century attire with a white wig and ruffled cravat, looking slightly to his left.
Antoine Lavoisier
French chemist
Claude Bernard
Claude Bernard
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Étienne Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire
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François Jacob, 1965.
François Jacob
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René Dubos
American microbiologist
Lwoff, 1965
André Lwoff
French biologist
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Sylvain Lévi
French orientalist
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Pierre-Sylvain Maréchal
French poet
Alexis Carrel.
Alexis Carrel
French surgeon, sociologist, and biologist
Belon, detail from an engraving
Pierre Belon
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Félix Dujardin
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Jean Cruveilhier
French pathologist
Peiresc, Nicolas-Claude Fabri de
Nicolas-Claude Fabri de Peiresc
French humanist
L'Obel, Matthias de
Matthias de L’Obel
Flemish-born physician and botanist

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