Emile Duclaux (June 24, 1840 - February 5 1904) was a French biologist and chemist who was born in Aurillac. In 1862 he was an assistant in the laboratory of Louis Pasteur. Later he became a professor in Tours (1865), Clermont-Ferrand (1866), Lyon (1873) and Paris (1878). For much of his career he was associated with the work of Louis Pasteur. Duclaux's work was mainly in the fields of chemistry, bacteriology and agriculture. Wikipedia
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