Georges Cuvier - Wikipedia Jean Léopold Nicolas Frédéric, baron Cuvier (23 August 1769 – 13 May 1832), known as Georges Cuvier ( ˈ k j uː v i eɪ ; [1] French: [ʒɔʁʒ(ə) kyvje]), was a French naturalist and zoologist, sometimes referred to as the "founding father of paleontology" [2]
Georges Cuvier | Biography Facts | Britannica Georges Cuvier (born August 23, 1769, Montbéliard [now in France]—died May 13, 1832, Paris, France) was a French zoologist and statesman, who established the sciences of comparative anatomy and paleontology
Georges Cuvier - Biography, Facts and Pictures - Famous Scientists Georges Cuvier is regarded as the father of paleontology He convinced a skeptical scientific world of the reality of species extinction He used comparative anatomy, a science he pioneered, to reconstruct extinct animals – for example, he established from drawings that a fossil he named pterodactyl was a flying reptile
Georges Cuvier (1769-1832) - University of California Museum of . . . Almost single-handedly, he founded vertebrate paleontology as a scientific discipline and created the comparative method of organismal biology, an incredibly powerful tool It was Cuvier who firmly established the fact of the extinction of past lifeforms
Georges Cuvier (1769-1832) - The Victorian Web Georges Cuvier (1769-1832), leader of elite French science John van Wyhe, Fellow, National University of Singapore; Researcher, History philosophy of science, Cambridge University Georges Cuvier was one of the most influential figures in science during the early nineteenth century
Georges Cuvier - Encyclopedia. com CUVIER, GEORGES (1769–1832), French naturalist, paleontologist, zoologist Georges Cuvier was born in the French-speaking, largely Lutheran principality of Montbéliard, part of the Duchy of Württemburg He was educated in Stuttgart at the Karlsschule, an academy designed to train future ducal civil servants
Georges Cuvier (1769-1832) | Embryo Project Encyclopedia Georges Cuvier, baptized Georges Jean-Leopold Nicolas-Frederic Cuvier, was a professor of anatomy at the National Museum of Natural History in Paris, France, through the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries
Georges Cuvier (1769-1832) - University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign Georges Cuvier was a French scientist from the 18 th century Cuvier was responsible for the theory of catastrophism and a new way of organizing life based on comparative anatomy Born in Germany in1769, Cuvier attended a strict military academy called Karlsschule in Germany from age 15 to 19
Biography of famous Scientist Georges Cuvier . . . - The Engineers Blog Georges Cuvier (1769–1832) was a French naturalist and paleontologist who played a foundational role in the development of paleontology and comparative anatomy Here is a detailed biography of Georges Cuvier, highlighting key events in his life:
Georges Cuvier | HSLS - University of Pittsburgh Georges Cuvier (1769-1832) is considered the founder of vertebrate paleontology In 1796, he was a founding member of the Institut de France, and in 1799 became Professor of Natural History at the College de France