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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
Swiss physician and naturalist
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
French scientist
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
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Sylvain Lévi
French orientalist
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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