Eugène Dubois, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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Dutch paleoanthropologist
Date of Birth: 28-Jan-1858
Place of Birth: Eijsden, Limburg, Netherlands
Date of Death: 16-Dec-1940
Profession: physician, geologist, curator, university teacher, paleontologist, archaeologist, anthropologist, anatomist, prehistorian, paleoanthropologist
Nationality: Kingdom of the Netherlands
Zodiac Sign: Aquarius 
About Eugène Dubois
- Marie Eugène François Thomas Dubois (French: [ø???n dybw?]; 28 January 1858 – 16 December 1940) was a Dutch paleoanthropologist and geologist.
- He earned worldwide fame for his discovery of Pithecanthropus erectus (later redesignated Homo erectus), or "Java Man".
- Although hominid fossils had been found and studied before, Dubois was the first anthropologist to embark upon a purposeful search for them.
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