Alexander von Humboldt: explorer, naturalist, and founder of modern biogeography Alexander von Humboldt Prussian naturalist and explorer (1769–1859) whose expeditions, measurements, and publications helped establish biogeography and a holistic view of nature’s interconnections.
Buffon Buffon is a surname and eponym associated chiefly with the 18th-century naturalist Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon, and the Italian goalkeeper Gianluigi Buffon; it also deno…