Charles Victor Naudin
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Charles Victor Naudin was a French naturalist and botanist.
when he worked in the publication of the Brazilian flora. He introduced the first seeds of Jubaea chilensis in France.
He taught at Chaptal College as professor of zoology, but a neurological disease left him deaf. He then became an assistant naturalist in 1854 and married in 1860. He entered the Academy of Sciences in 1863 and he succeeded Horace Benedict Alfred Moquin-Tandon. He joined Collioure in 1869 and held a private experimental garden. In 1878, he was appointed director of the botanical garden of Villa Thuret of Antibes (current laboratory of INRA
), but lost sight. He worked closely with Jacques Nicolas Ernest Germain de Saint-Pierre
.
Despite that he was running experiments on hybridization and the acclimation of plants for the production of new species. He studied heredity, the flora of Brazil and describes twenty kinds of pumpkins in 1860.
Charles Darwin
and Gregor Mendel
studied his work. It is considered a precursor of modern genetics.
Biography
He studied at Bailleul-sur-Thérain in 1825, then to Limoux, a graduate of the University of Montpellier in 1837, he was preceptor in 1838 and obtained his doctorate in 1842. He taught until 1846, when he joined the herbarium of the National Museum of Natural History. He collaborated with A. Saint-HilaireAugustin Saint-Hilaire
Augustin François César Prouvençal de Saint-Hilaire , French botanist and traveler, was born at Orléans, France, on 4 October 1779. He began to publish memoirs on botanical subjects at an early age...
when he worked in the publication of the Brazilian flora. He introduced the first seeds of Jubaea chilensis in France.
He taught at Chaptal College as professor of zoology, but a neurological disease left him deaf. He then became an assistant naturalist in 1854 and married in 1860. He entered the Academy of Sciences in 1863 and he succeeded Horace Benedict Alfred Moquin-Tandon. He joined Collioure in 1869 and held a private experimental garden. In 1878, he was appointed director of the botanical garden of Villa Thuret of Antibes (current laboratory of INRA
Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique
The Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique is a French public research institute dedicated to scientific studies surrounding the problems of agriculture...
), but lost sight. He worked closely with Jacques Nicolas Ernest Germain de Saint-Pierre
Jacques Nicolas Ernest Germain de Saint-Pierre
Jacques Nicolas Ernest Germain de Saint-Pierre was a French botanist. The plant genus Germainia of the family Poaceae is named in his honor....
.
Despite that he was running experiments on hybridization and the acclimation of plants for the production of new species. He studied heredity, the flora of Brazil and describes twenty kinds of pumpkins in 1860.
Charles Darwin
Charles Darwin
Charles Robert Darwin FRS was an English naturalist. He established that all species of life have descended over time from common ancestry, and proposed the scientific theory that this branching pattern of evolution resulted from a process that he called natural selection.He published his theory...
and Gregor Mendel
Gregor Mendel
Gregor Johann Mendel was an Austrian scientist and Augustinian friar who gained posthumous fame as the founder of the new science of genetics. Mendel demonstrated that the inheritance of certain traits in pea plants follows particular patterns, now referred to as the laws of Mendelian inheritance...
studied his work. It is considered a precursor of modern genetics.
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- Manuel de l'acclimateur (1887) published with Ferdinand von MuellerFerdinand von MuellerBaron Sir Ferdinand Jacob Heinrich von Mueller, KCMG was a German-Australian physician, geographer, and most notably, a botanist.-Early life:...