Human Accomplishment: Georges Cuvier

a French naturalist and zoologist, sometimes referred to as the "founding father of paleontology".

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(Georges Cuvier)

Born

Jean Léopold Nicolas Frédéric Cuvier 23 August 1769 Montbéliard, County of Montbéliard, Duchy of Württemberg, Holy Roman Empire

Died

13 May 1832 (aged 62) Paris, Kingdom of France

Nationality

French

Known for

Le Règne Animal ; establishing the fields of stratigraphy and comparative anatomy, and the principle of faunal succession in the fossil record; making extinction an accepted scientific phenomenon; opposing

Fields

Natural history, paleontology, anatomy

Institutions

Muséum national d'histoire naturelle

adultbasic

France

Author abbrev. (botany)

Cuvier

era

1800+

Other names

Georges Cuvier

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