The following is a list persons who have held the Chairs of the Muséum national d'histoire naturelle

Muséum national d'histoire naturelle

The Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle is the National Museum of Natural History in Paris, France.- History :The museum was formally founded on 10 June 1793, during the French Revolution...

. The number of chaired positions, and their subject areas, have evolved since the creation of the original twelve chairs , some being subdivided into two positions and others removed. (Titles translated)

• Animal Anatomy
  • 1793 to 1802 : Jean-Claude Mertrud.
  • 1802 to 1832 : Georges Cuvier
    Georges Cuvier
    Georges Chrétien Léopold Dagobert Cuvier or Jean Léopold Nicolas Frédéric Cuvier , known as Georges Cuvier, was a French naturalist and zoologist...
    
    . This Chair was renamed Comparative Anatomy.
    • Comparative Anatomy
      • 1832 to 1850 : Henri Marie Ducrotay de Blainville
        Henri Marie Ducrotay de Blainville
        Henri Marie Ducrotay de Blainville was a French zoologist and anatomist.Blainville was born at Arques, near Dieppe. In about 1796 he went to Paris to study painting, but he ultimately devoted himself to natural history, and attracted the attention of Georges Cuvier, for whom he occasionally...
        
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      • 1850 to 1855 : Louis Georges Duvernoy.
      • 1855 to 1868 : Etienne Serres
        Étienne Serres
        Antoine Étienne Renaud Augustin Serres was a French physician and embryologist.In 1810 Serres received his medical doctorate in Paris, and afterwards worked at the Hôtel-Dieu de Paris and the Hôpital de la Pitié. Beginning in 1839 he taught comparative anatomy at the Jardin des Plantes. In 1841 he...
        
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      • 1868 to 1879 : Paul Gervais
        Paul Gervais
        For the Canadian parliamentarian see Paul Mullins GervaisPaul Gervais full name François Louis Paul Gervaise was a French palaeontologist and entomologist.-Biography:...
        
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      • 1879 to 1894 : Georges Pouchet
        Georges Pouchet
        Charles Henri Georges Pouchet was a French naturalist and anatomist who was born in Rouen. He was the son of naturalist Félix Archimède Pouchet....
        
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      • 1894 to 1902 : Henri Filhol
        Henri Filhol
        Henri Filhol was a French medical doctor, malacologist and naturalist. He served as the expedition doctor and naturalist on the French 1874 Transit of Venus expedition to Campbell Island, New Zealand, with a peak on the island, Filhol Peak, being named after him...
        
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      • 1903 to 1921 : Edmond Perrier.
      • 1922 to 1941 : Raoul Anthony.
      • 1942 : Empty.
      • 1943 to 1960 : Jacques Millot.
      • 1961 : Empty.
      • 1962 to 1984 : Jean Anthony.
      • 1984 to ???? : Empty.

• Human Anatomy
  • 1793 to 1832 : Antoine Portal
    Antoine Portal
    Baron Antoine Portal was a French anatomist, doctor, medical historian and founding president of the Académie Nationale de Médecine. Born on January 5 1742 in Gaillac, he was the eldest of 12 siblings...
    
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  • 1832 to 1838 : Pierre Flourens. This Chair was renamed Anatomy and Natural History of Man.
    • Anatomy and Natural History of Man
      • 1839 to 1855 : Etienne Serres
        Étienne Serres
        Antoine Étienne Renaud Augustin Serres was a French physician and embryologist.In 1810 Serres received his medical doctorate in Paris, and afterwards worked at the Hôtel-Dieu de Paris and the Hôpital de la Pitié. Beginning in 1839 he taught comparative anatomy at the Jardin des Plantes. In 1841 he...
        
        . This Chair was renamed Anthropology.
        • Anthropology
          • 1855 to 1892 : Jean Louis Armand de Quatrefages de Bréau
            Jean Louis Armand de Quatrefages de Bréau
            Jean Louis Armand de Quatrefages de Bréau was a French naturalist.- Life :He was born at Berthézène, in the commune of Valleraugue , the son of a Protestant farmer. He studied medicine at Strasbourg, where he took the double degree of M.D...
            
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          • 1892 to 1908 : Ernest Hamy.
          • 1909 to 1927 : René Verneau
            René Verneau
            René Verneau was a French antropologist who was important in the study of the paleoanthropology. Among his work is the reconstruction of the Grimaldi man from Liguria, and study of the Guanches....
            
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          • 1928 to 1936 : Paul Rivet
            Paul Rivet
            Paul Rivet was a French ethnologist, who founded the Musée de l'Homme in 1937. He was also one of the founders of the Comité de vigilance des intellectuels antifascistes, an antifascist organization created in the wake of the February 6, 1934 far right riots.Rivet proposed a theory according to...
            
            . This Chair was renamed Ethnology of Modern Man and Fossilized Man when the Musée de l'Homme
            Musée de l'Homme
            The Musée de l'Homme was created in 1937 by Paul Rivet for the 1937 Exposition Internationale des Arts et Techniques dans la Vie Moderne. It is the descendant of the Musée d'Ethnographie du Trocadéro, founded in 1878...
            
             was created.
            • Ethnology of Modern Man and Fossilized Man
              • 1937 to 1940 : Paul Rivet.
              • 1941 to 1944 : Henri Vallois.
              • 1945 to 1949 : Paul Rivet.
              • 1950 to 1959 : Henri Vallois.
              • 1960 to 1967 : Henri Vallois. This Chair was renamed Anthropology and Ethnology.
                • Anthropology and ethnology
                  • 1968 to 1970 : Robert Gessain. This Chair was renamed Anthropology.
                    • Anthropology
                      • 1970 to 1979 : Robert Gessain.
                      • 1980 to 1983 : Yves Coppens
                        Yves Coppens
                        Yves Coppens is a French anthropologist. He graduated from the University of Rennes. He has studied ancient hominids and has had multiple published works on this topic, and has also produced a film....
                        
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                      • 1983 to 1985 : unknown.

• Comparative Physiology
  • 1837-1838 : Frédéric Cuvier
    Frédéric Cuvier
    Frédéric Cuvier was a French zoologist. He was the younger brother of noted naturalist and zoologist Georges Cuvier....
    
    
  • 1838-1867 : Pierre Flourens. This Chair was exchanged with the Chair of General Physiology by the faculty of Sciences in Paris.
    • 1868-1879 : Claude Bernard
      Claude Bernard
      Claude Bernard was a French physiologist. He was the first to define the term milieu intérieur . Historian of science I. Bernard Cohen of Harvard University called Bernard "one of the greatest of all men of science"...
      
      

• Chemistry
  • 1779 to 1793 : Antoine-Louis Brongniart.
  • 1804 to 1830 : Louis-Nicolas Vauquelin.
  • 1830 to 1850 : Michel Eugène Chevreul
    Michel Eugène Chevreul
    Michel Eugène Chevreul was a French chemist whose work with fatty acids led to early applications in the fields of art and science. He is credited with the discovery of margaric acid and designing an early form of soap made from animal fats and salt...
    
    . This Chair was renamed Chemistry as Applied to Organic Compounds (Organic Chemistry).
    • Chemistry as Applied to Organic Compounds
    • 1850 to 1889 : Michel Eugène Chevreul.
      • 1890 to 1915 : Léon-Albert Arnaud.
      • 1915 to 1919 : unknown.
      • 1919 to 1925 : Louis-Jacques Simon.
      • 1926 to 1927 : unknown.
      • 1928 to 1936 : Richard Fosse. This Chair joined with the Chair of Botany to become the Chair of Organic and Physical Chemistry of Plants.
        • Organic and Physical Chemistry of Plants
          • 1936 to 1940 : Richard Fosse.
          • 1941 : unknown. This Chair was renamed Chemistry as Applied to Organic Compounds.
            • Chemistry as Applied to Organic Compounds
              • 1941 to 1957 : Charles Sannié.
              • 1958 to 1967 : Charles Mentzer.
              • 1968 : unknown.
              • 1969 to ??? : Darius Molho.

• General Chemistry
  • 1793 to 1809 : Antoine-François Fourcroy
    Antoine François, comte de Fourcroy
    Antoine François, comte de Fourcroy was a French chemist and a contemporary of Antoine Lavoisier. Fourcroy collaborated with Lavoisier, Guyton de Morveau, and Claude Berthollet on the Méthode de nomenclature chimique, a work that helped standardize chemical nomenclature.-Life and work:Fourcroy...
    
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  • 1809 to 1811 : unknown.
  • 1811 to 1832 : André Laugier.
  • 1832 to 1850 : Joseph-Louis Gay-Lussac. This Chair was renamed Chemistry as Applied to Inorganic Compounds.
    • Chemistry as Applied to Inorganic Compounds
      • 1850 to 1892 : Edmond Frémy
        Edmond Fremy
        Edmond Frémy was a French chemist. He is perhaps best known today for Frémy's salt, a strong oxidizing agent which he discovered in 1845...
        
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• Plants in the Countryside (literal translation)
  • 1793 to 1826 : Antoine-Laurent de Jussieu.
  • 1826 to 1853 : Adrien de Jussieu. This Chair was removed and replaced by the Chair of Paleontology.

• Botany in the Museum
  • 1793 to 1833 : René Desfontaines.
  • 1833 to 1857 : Adolphe Brongniart. This Chair was renamed Botany and Plant Physiology
    • Botany and Plant Physiology
      • 1857 to 1874 : Adolphe Brongniart. This Chair was renamed Botany, Organology and Plant Physiology.
        • Botany, Organology and Plant Physiology
          • 1874 to 1876 : Adolphe Brongniart.
          • 1876 to 1879 : unknown.
          • 1879 to 1914 : Philippe Van Tieghem.
          • 1914 to 1918 : unknown.
          • 1919 to 1932 : Julien Costantin.
          • 1933 : unknown. This Chair was renamed Comparative Anatomy of Current Plants and Fossils and was removed in 1934. It was restored in 1937.
            • Comparative Anatomy of Current Plants and Fossils
              • 1938 to 1944 : Paul Bertrand.
              • 1945 to 1958 : Auguste Loubière. This Chair was changed to Plant Physics.
    • Plant Physics
      • 1857 to 1897 : Georges Ville.
      • 1898 to 1925 : Léon Maquenne.
      • 1926 to 1931 : Marc Bridel.
      • 1931 to 1934 : unknown. This Chair was removed in 1935. It was restored in 1959.
      • 1959 to 1960 : Pierre Donzelot.
      • 1961 to 1962 : Charles Sadron
        Charles Sadron
        Charles Sadron , is a French physicist specialized in the study of biological macromolecules.- Biography :Charles Sadron was professor at the university of Strasbourg...
        
        . This Chair was renamed Biophysics.
        • Biophysics
          • 1962 to 1975 : Charles Sadron.
          • 1976 to ???? : Claude Hélène.

• Botany (Classification and Natural Families)
  • 1874 to 1905 : Édouard Bureau. After the creation of the Chair of Botany (Classification and Natural Families of Cryptogams), this Chair was reduced to the Phanerogams (Spermatophytes).
    • Botany (Classification and Natural Families of Phanerogams
      • 1906 to 1931 : Henri Lecomte.
      • 1931 to 1933 : Jean-Henri Humbert. This Chair was renamed Phanerogamy.
        • Phanerogamy
          • 1933 to 1957 : Jean-Henri Humbert.
          • 1958 to 1968 : André Aubréville.
          • 1969 to 1983 : Jean-François Leroy.
          • 1983 to ??? : unknown.
    • Botany (Classification and Natural Families of Cryptogams
      • 1905 to 1931 : Louis Mangin.
      • 1932 to 1932 : Pierre Allorge. This Chair was renamed Cryptogamy.
        • Cryptogamy
          • 1933 to 1944 : Pierre Allorge.
          • 1945 to 1973 : Roger Heim
            Roger Heim
            Roger Heim was a French botanist specialising in mycology and tropical phytopathology. He was known for his studies describing the anatomy of the mushroom hymenium, the systematics and phylogeny of higher fungi , the mycology of tropical fungi such as...
            
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          • 1974 : unknown.
          • 1975 to 1982 : Suzanne Jovet-Ast.
          • 1982 to ??? : unknown.

• Horticulture (Agriculture and Culture of Gardens, Vineyards and Orchards)
  • 1793 to 1824 : André Thouin
    André Thouin
    André Thouin was a French botanist who was born in Paris. He studied botany under Bernard de Jussieu . In 1793 Thouin attained the chair of horticulture at Muséum national d'histoire naturelle in Paris. Thouin was a good friend of U.S...
    
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  • 1825 to 1828 : Louis-Augustin Bosc d’Antic.
  • 1828 to 1850 : Charles-François Brisseau de Mirbel.
  • 1850 to 1882 : Joseph Decaisne
    Joseph Decaisne
    Joseph Decaisne was a French botanist and agronomist.Although he was born in Brussels, Belgium, he exercised his activity exclusively in Paris...
    
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  • 1883 : unknown.
  • 1884 to 1901 : Maxime Cornu
    Marie Maxime Cornu
    Marie Maxime Cornu was a French botanist and mycologist. He was a younger brother to physicist Alfred Cornu ....
    
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  • 1901 to 1919 : Julien Costantin
    Julien Noël Costantin
    Julien Noël Costantin was a French botanist and mycologist who was a native of Paris.He studied at École Normale Supérieure de la rue d'Ulm. In 1881 he received his license in natural history and two years later earned his doctorate...
    
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  • 1920 to 1932 : Désiré Bois.
  • 1932 to 1956 : André Guillaumin
    André Guillaumin
    André Louis Joseph Edmond Armand Guillaumin is a French botanist who was born on 21 June 1885 in Arrou and died on 29 May 1974 in Athis-Mons. He obtained his license in natural sciences in 1906 and began work in the Muséum national d'histoire naturelle in Paris in 1909 as a preparer...
    
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  • 1956 to 1956 : unknown. This Chair was renamed Applied Plant Biology.
    • Applied Plant Biology
      • 1961 to 1985 : Jean-Louis Hamel.

• Ecology and the Protection of Nature
  • 1955 to 1958 : Georges Kuhnholtz-Lordat. This Chair was renamed General Ecology.
    • General Ecology.
      • 1960 to 1962 : Paul Rémy
        Paul Remy
        Paul Remy is a French tennis player. He was active in the 1950s, playing in Wimbledon, the US Open, the French Open and the Davis Cup.-References:...
        
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      • 1963 to ??? : Claude Delamare-Deboutteville.

• Zoology (Quadrupeds, Cetacea, Birds, Reptiles, Fish)
  • 1793 to 1794 : Étienne Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire
    Étienne Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire
    Étienne Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire was a French naturalist who established the principle of "unity of composition". He was a colleague of Jean-Baptiste Lamarck and expanded and defended Lamarck's evolutionary theories...
    
    . This Chair was subdivided into two Chairs :
    • Zoology (Mammals and Birds)
      • 1794 to 1841 : Étienne Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire
        Étienne Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire
        Étienne Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire was a French naturalist who established the principle of "unity of composition". He was a colleague of Jean-Baptiste Lamarck and expanded and defended Lamarck's evolutionary theories...
        
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      • 1841 to 1861 : Isidore Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire
        Isidore Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire
        Isidore Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire was a French zoologist and an authority on deviation from normal structure. He coined the term ethology.He was born in Paris, the son of Étienne Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire...
        
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      • 1862 to 1876 : Henri Milne Edwards.
      • 1876 to 1900 : Alphonse Milne-Edwards
        Alphonse Milne-Edwards
        Alphonse Milne-Edwards was a French mammalologist, ornithologist and carcinologist. He was English in origin, the son of Henri Milne-Edwards and grandson of Bryan Edwards, a Jamaican planter who settled at Bruges .Milne-Edwards obtained a medical degree in 1859 and became assistant to his father...
        
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      • 1900 to 1906 : Émile Oustalet
        Émile Oustalet
        Jean-Frédéric Émile Oustalet was a French zoologist.Oustalet was born at Montbéliard, in the department of Doubs. He studied at the Ecole des Hautes-Etudes and his first scientific work was on the respiratory organs of dragonfly larvae...
        
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      • 1906 to 1926 : Édouard Trouessart.
      • 1926 to 1947 : Édouard Bourdelle.
      • 1948 : unknown.
      • 1949 to 1962 : Jacques Berlioz.
      • 1963 : unknown.
      • 1964 to ??? : Jean Dorst
        Jean Dorst
        Professor Dr Jean Dorst was a French ornithologist.Dorst was born at Mulhouse and studied biology and paleontology at the Faculty of Sciences of the University of Paris. In 1947 he joined the staff of the Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle...
        
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    • Zoology (Reptiles and Fish)
      • 1795 to 1825 : Bernard Germain Étienne de Laville-sur-Illon, comte de Lacépède. (N.b. 1825 is the year of Lacépède’s death, but actually Duméril replaced him in the Chair of Zoology as early as 1803 because Lacépède, who was occupied with his political appointments, relinquished his Professorship.
      • 1825 to 1857 : André Marie Constant Duméril
        André Marie Constant Duméril
        André Marie Constant Duméril was a French zoologist. He was professor of anatomy at the Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle from 1801 to 1812, when he became professor of herpetology and ichthyology...
        
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      • 1857 to 1870 : Auguste Duméril
        Auguste Duméril
        Auguste Henri André Duméril was a French zoologist. He was professor of Herpetology and Ichthyology at the Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle in Paris from 1857. His father André Marie Constant Duméril was also a zoologist...
        
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      • 1870 to 1875 : Émile Blanchard
        Émile Blanchard
        Charles Émile Blanchard was a French zoologist and entomologist.Blanchard was born in Paris. His father was an artist and naturalist and Émile began natural history very early in life. When he was 14 years old, Jean Victoire Audouin , allowed him access to the laboratory of the Muséum national...
        
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      • 1875 to 1909 : Léon Vaillant
        Léon Vaillant
        Léon Louis Vaillant was a French zoologist. He is most famous for his work in the areas of herpetology, malacology, and ichthyology...
        
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      • 1910 to 1937 : Louis Roule.
      • 1937 to 1943 : Jacques Pellegrin
        Jacques Pellegrin
        Jacques Pellegrin was a French zoologist.Pellegrin was born in Paris, and studied natural history. In 1894 he became assistant chairman of zoology at the Muséum national d'histoire naturelle, replacing Léon Vaillant .He got his doctorates in medicine and science...
        
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      • 1944 to 1956 : Léon Bertin.
      • 1957 to 1975 : Jean Guibé. This Chair was subdivided: The Fish were transferred to the Chair of Dynamics of Aquatic Populations and became the Chair of General and Applied Ichthyology. This Chair was then renamed Zoology (Reptiles and Amphibians).
        • Zoology (Reptiles and Amphibians)
          • 1977 to ??? : Édouard-Raoul Brygoo.
        • Dynamics of Aquatic Populations
          • 1975 : Jacques Daget. This Chair was renamed General and Applied Ichthyology.
            • General and Applied Ichthyology
              • 1976 to 1984 : Jacques Daget.
              • 1985 to ???? : unknown.

Zoology (Insects, Worms and Microscopic Animals)

• • 1793 to 1829: Jean-Baptist de Lamarck
    Jean-Baptiste Lamarck
    Jean-Baptiste Pierre Antoine de Monet, Chevalier de la Marck , often known simply as Lamarck, was a French naturalist...
    
    . With his death, this Chair was subdivided into two Chairs:
    • Natural History of Shellfish, Arachnids and the Insects or Articulated Animals
      • 1830 to 1833 : Pierre André Latreille
        Pierre André Latreille
        Pierre André Latreille was a French zoologist, specialising in arthropods. Having trained as a Roman Catholic priest before the French Revolution, Latreille was imprisoned, and only regained his freedom after recognising a rare species he found in the prison, Necrobia ruficollis...
        
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      • 1833 to 1841 : Victor Audouin
        Jean Victoire Audouin
        thumb|Victor AudouinJean Victoire Audouin , sometimes Victor Audouin, was a French naturalist, an entomologist, ornithologist and malacologist.Audouin was born in Paris and studied medicine...
        
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      • 1841 to 1862 : Henri Milne Edwards.
      • 1864 to 1894 : Émile Blanchard
        Émile Blanchard
        Charles Émile Blanchard was a French zoologist and entomologist.Blanchard was born in Paris. His father was an artist and naturalist and Émile began natural history very early in life. When he was 14 years old, Jean Victoire Audouin , allowed him access to the laboratory of the Muséum national...
        
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      • 1895 to 1917 : Eugène Louis Bouvier
        Eugène Louis Bouvier
        Eugène Louis Bouvier was a French entomologist and carcinologist. Bouvier was a professor at the Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle...
        
        . This Chair is then restricted to only Insects and is renamed Entomology.
        • Entomology
          • 1917 to 1931 : Eugène Louis Bouvier.
          • 1931 to 1950 : René Jeannel
            René Jeannel
            René Jeannel was a French entomologist. He was director of the Muséum national d'histoire naturelle from 1945-1951. Jeanell's most important work was on the insect fauna of caves in the Pyrenees, France and in the Carpathians, Romania. He also worked in Africa...
            
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          • 1951 to 1955 : Lucien Chopard
            Lucien Chopard
            Lucien Chopard was a French entomologist.Chopard was born in Paris. He graduated as a Doctor of Science in 1920 at the Faculté des sciences de Paris with a thesis entitled Recherches sur la conformation et le développement des derniers segments abdominaux chez les orthoptères...
            
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          • 1956 to 1960 : Eugène Séguy
            Eugène Séguy
            Eugène Séguy was a French entomologist who specialised in Diptera. He held a chair of entomology at the Muséum national d'histoire naturelle in Paris from 1956 -1960.Portraits and Number 7, bottom row.-Works:...
            
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          • 1961 : unknown.
          • 1962 to 1963 : Alfred Balachowsky
            Alfred Balachowsky
            Alfred Serge Balachowsky was a French entomologist born in Russia. He specialised in Homoptera : Coccoidea but also worked on Coleoptera. Balachowsky worked at the Muséum national d'histoire naturelle...
            
            . This Chair is renamed General and Applied Entomology.
            • General and Applied Entomology
              • 1963 to 1974 : Alfred Balachowsky
                Alfred Balachowsky
                Alfred Serge Balachowsky was a French entomologist born in Russia. He specialised in Homoptera : Coccoidea but also worked on Coleoptera. Balachowsky worked at the Muséum national d'histoire naturelle...
                
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              • 1975 to 1987 : Jacques Carayon
                Jacques Carayon
                Jacque Carayon was a French entomologist, best known for his pioneering research into traumatic insemination. Carayon was Chairman of Entomology at the National Museum in Paris from 1975-1985.-Career:...
                
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              • 1987 to 2000 : Claude Caussanel.
              • 2000 to 2001 : Loïc Matile
                Loïc Matile
                Loïc Matile was a French entomologist who specialised in Diptera ....
                
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    • Natural History of Mollusks, Worms and Zoophytes
      • 1830 to 1832 : Henri Marie Ducrotay de Blainville.
      • 1832 to 1865 : Achille Valenciennes
        Achille Valenciennes
        Achille Valenciennes was a French zoologist.Valenciennes was born in Paris, and studied under Georges Cuvier. Valenciennes' study of parasitic worms in humans made an important contribution to the study of parasitology...
        
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      • 1865 to 1869 : Henri de Lacaze-Duthiers
        Henri de Lacaze-Duthiers
        Félix Joseph Henri de Lacaze-Duthiers was a French biologist, anatomist and zoologist who was born in Montpezat in the department of Lot-et-Garonne. He studied medicine in Paris, and worked at Necker Hospital under Armand Trousseau . Later, with Jules Haime , he travelled to the Balearic Islands...
        
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      • 1869 to 1875 : Paul Deshayes.
      • 1876 to 1903 : Edmond Perrier.
      • 1903 to 1917 : Louis Joubin
        Louis Joubin
        Louis Marie Adolphe Olivier Édouard Joubin was a professor at the Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle in Paris. He published works on nemerteans, chaetognatha, cephalopods, and other molluscs. Joubin's Squid is named for him....
        
        . This Chair is then restricted to Mollusks and Zoophytes is renamed Malacology.
        • Malacology
          • 1917 to 1935 : Louis Joubin.
          • 1935 to 1942 : Louis Germain.
          • 1943 to 1970 : Édouard Fischer-Piette. This Chair is then attached to that of Biology of Marine Invertebrates.
            • Biology of Marine Invertebrates
              • 1966 to ??? : Claude Lévi.
    • Zoology (Worms and Crustaceans)
      • 1917 to 1937 : Charles Gravier.
      • 1938 to 1954 : Louis Fage.
      • 1955 to 1955 : Max Vachon. The Worms were separated from the Arthropods. The Chair of Zoology (Arthropods) was then created.
        • Zoology (Worms)
          • 1960 to ??? : Alain Chabaud.
        • Zoology (Arthropods)
          • 1960 to 1978 : Max Vachon.
          • 1979 to ??? : Yves Coineau.

• Entomology of Colonial Agriculture
  • 1942 to 1958 Paul Vayssière. This Chair was then renamed Entomology of Tropical Agriculture.
    • Entomology of Tropical Agriculture
      • 1958 to 1960 Paul Vayssière. This Chair was then removed.

• Mineralogy
  • 1793 to 1800 : Louis Jean-Marie Daubenton.
  • 1800 to 1802 : Déodat Gratet de Dolomieu
    Déodat Gratet de Dolomieu
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  • 1802 to 1822 : René Just Haüy
    René Just Haüy
    René Just Haüy – 3 June 1822 in Paris) was a French mineralogist, commonly styled the Abbé Haüy after he was made an honorary canon of Notre Dame. He is often referred to as the "Father of Modern Crystallography." -Biography:...
    
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  • 1822 to 1847 : Alexandre Brongniart
    Alexandre Brongniart
    Alexandre Brongniart was a French chemist, mineralogist, and zoologist, who collaborated with Georges Cuvier on a study of the geology of the region around Paris...
    
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  • 1847 to 1857 : Armand Dufrénoy.
  • 1857 to 1876 : Gabriel Delafosse.
  • 1876 to 1892 : Alfred Des Cloizeaux
    Alfred Des Cloizeaux
    Alfred Louis Olivier Legrand Des Cloizeaux was a French mineralogist.Des Cloizeaux was born at Beauvais, in the department of Oise. He studied with Jean-Baptiste Biot at the Collège de France. He became professor of mineralogy at the École Normale Supérieure and afterwards at the Muséum National...
    
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  • 1893 to 1936 : Alfred Lacroix.
  • 1937 to 1967 : Jean Orcel.
  • 1968 to ??? : Jacques Fabriès.

• Geology
  • 1793 to 1819 : Barthélemy Faujas de Saint-Fond
    Barthélemy Faujas de Saint-Fond
    Barthélemy Faujas de Saint-Fond , French geologist and traveller, was born at Montélimar. He was educated at the Jesuit's College at Lyon; afterwards he went to Grenoble where he studied law and was admitted as an advocate to the parlement.He rose to be president of the seneschal's court in...
    
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  • 1819 to 1861 : Louis Cordier
    Louis Cordier
    Pierre Louis Antoine Cordier was a French geologist and mineralogist, and a founder of the French Geological Society...
    
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  • 1861 to 1891 : Auguste Daubrée
    Gabriel Auguste Daubrée
    Gabriel Auguste Daubrée was a French geologist.Daubrée was born at Metz, and educated at the Ecole Polytechnique in Paris...
    
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  • 1892 to 1919 : Stanislas-Étienne Meunier.
  • 1920 : unknown.
  • 1921 to 1940 : Paul Lemoine.
  • 1941 to 1962 : René Abrard.
  • 1963 to 1980 : Robert Laffitte.
  • 1980 to ???? : Lucien Leclaire.

• Physics as Applied to the Natural Sciences
  • 1838 to 1877 : Antoine-César Becquerel.
  • 1878 to 1891 : Edmond Becquerel
    A. E. Becquerel
    Alexandre-Edmond Becquerel , known as Edmond Becquerel, was a French physicist who studied the solar spectrum, magnetism, electricity, and optics. He is known for his work in luminescence and phosphorescence. He is credited with the discovery of the photovoltaic effect, the operating principle of...
    
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  • 1892 to 1908 : Henri Becquerel
    Henri Becquerel
    Antoine Henri Becquerel was a French physicist, Nobel laureate, and the discoverer of radioactivity along with Marie Curie and Pierre Curie, for which all three won the 1903 Nobel Prize in Physics.-Early life:...
    
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  • 1909 to 1948 : Jean Becquerel
    Jean Becquerel
    Jean Becquerel was a French physicist, and son of Antoine-Henri Becquerel. He worked on the optical and magnetic properties of crystals, discovering the rotation of the plane of polarisation by a magnetic field. He also published a textbook on relativity...
    
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  • 1949 to 1977 : Yves Le Grand. This Chair was then combined with the Chair of Physical-Chemistry of Biological Adaptation.

• Natural Iconography or the Art of Drawing and Painting all the Things of Nature
  • 1793 to 1822 Gérard van Spaendonck
    Gerard van Spaendonck
    Gerard van Spaendonck was a Dutch painter.Gerard was born in Tilburg, an older brother of Cornelis van Spaendonck , who was also a renowned artist. In the 1760s he studied with decorative painter Willem Jacob Herreyns in Antwerp...
    
    . This Chair is then removed.