Jean-Baptiste Lamarck

Jean-Baptiste Lamarck

male, deceased (1829)
Jean-Baptiste Pierre Antoine de Monet, Chevalier de Lamarck (August 1, 1744 - December 28, 1829) was a French soldier, naturalist, academic and an...

Théodore Monod

male, deceased (2000)
Théodore André Monod was a French naturalist, explorer, and humanist scholar. In the course of his career, Monod was made director of the "I...
Alcide D'Orbigny

Alcide D'Orbigny

male, deceased (1857)
Alcide Charles Victor Marie Dessalines d'Orbigny was a great French naturalist. He made major contributions in many areas, including zoology,...
Jean Dorst

Jean Dorst

male, deceased (2001)
Professor Dr Jean Dorst was a French ornithologist. Dorst was born at Mulhouse and studied biology and paleontology at the Faculty of Sciences of...
Henri Milne-Edwards

Henri Milne-Edwards

male, deceased (1885)
Henri Milne-Edwards (October 23, 1800 - July 29, 1885) was an eminent French zoologist. Milne-Edwards, was the 27th child of an English father...

Paul Rivet

male
Paul Rivet was a French ethnologist, who founded the Musée de l'Homme in 1937. He was also one of the founder of the "Comité de vigilance des in...

André Thouin

male, deceased (1824)
André Thouin was a French botanist who was born in Paris. He studied botany under Bernard de Jussieu (1699-1777). In 1793 Thouin attained the c...
Michel Eugène Chevreul

Michel Eugène Chevreul

male, deceased (1889)
Michel Eugène Chevreul was an important French chemist whose work with fatty acids led to early applications in the fields of art and science. He i...
Nicolas Baudin

Nicolas Baudin

male, deceased (1803)
Nicolas-Thomas Baudin was a French explorer. Baudin was born in Saint-Martin-de-Ré on the Ile de Ré. At the age of fifteen he joined the merchant na...

Pierre André Latreille

male, deceased (1833)
Pierre André Latreille was a French entomologist. His works describing insects assigned many of the insect taxa still in use today. Latreille was b...