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

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Jean-Baptiste Lamarck
Jean-Baptiste Lamarck
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E.O. Wilson
E.O. Wilson
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Conrad Gesner.
Conrad Gesner
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Swammerdam, Jan
Jan Swammerdam
Dutch naturalist
Beebe, William
William Beebe
American biologist and explorer
Louis Pasteur
Louis Pasteur
French chemist and microbiologist
Antoine Lavoisier
Antoine Lavoisier
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Claude Bernard, detail of a lithograph by A. Laemlein, 1858
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
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Lwoff, 1965
André Lwoff
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Sylvain Lévi
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Pierre-Sylvain Maréchal
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Alexis Carrel.
Alexis Carrel
French surgeon, sociologist, and biologist
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Pierre Belon
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Félix Dujardin
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Jean Cruveilhier
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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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