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French biologists have contributed some of biology's greatest findings. With the increasing importance of genetics, conservation and microbiology, French biologists may yet discover some of nature's most amazing secrets.
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Bernard, Claude (1813-1878), the leading French physiologist of his day, was the founder of modern experimental physiology. See more »
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Albert Calmette
Calmette, Albert (1863-1933), a French bacteriologist, worked to improve public health through research and vaccination programs.
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Yersin, Alexandre (1863-1943) was a Swiss-born French bacterilogists who first identified the bacterium Yersinia pestis that causes the plague, a serious infectious disease.
See more »Andre, Lwoff
Lwoff, André (1797-1875), a French microbiologist, shared the 1965 Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine with Francois Jacob and Jacques Monod.
See more »Baron Cuvier
Cuvier, (French: kü'vyā'), Baron Georges Léopold Chrétien Frédéric Dagobert (1769--1832), a French naturalist.
See more »Charles Jules Henri Nicolle
Nicolle, Charles Jules Henri (1866-1936), a French bacteriologist, won the 1928 Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine for his discovery that the disease typhus is transmitted by the body louse.
See more »Charles Robert Richet
Richet, Charles Robert (1850-1935) was a French physiologist, a scientist who studies how living things function.
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Lamarck, Jean Baptiste Pierre Antoine de Monet, Chevalier de (1744–1829), a French naturalist.
See more »Claude Bernard
Bernard, Claude (1813-1878), the leading French physiologist of his day, was the founder of modern experimental physiology.
See more »Francois Jacob
Jacob, Frančois (1920-) is a French biochemist and geneticist. He received the 1965 Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine for his contributions to scientific knowledge of the fundamental processes in living matter that form the bases for such biological principles as adaptation, reproduction, and evolution.
See more »Hilaire Chardonnet
Chardonnet, Hilaire (1839-1924) was a French chemist and physiologist who invented a technique for extruding cellulose nitrate into a manufactured fiber, which became known as rayon.
See more »Jacques Monod
Monod, Jacques (1910-1976), was a French biochemist who shared the 1965 Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine with Francois Jacob and Andre Lwoff.
See more »Marie Francois Xavier Bichat
Bichat, Marie François Xavier (ma REE fran SWAH gzah VYAY bee SHAH) (1771-1802) a French surgeon, was the first scientist to base anatomy and physiology on the study of tissues, rather than organs.
See more »Pierre Andre Latreille
Latreille, Pierre André (1762-1833), a French naturalist. He contributed to entomology (the study of insects) by devising a new method of classification, using family names.
See more »Pierre Roux
Roux, Pierre Paul Émile (1853–1933), a French bacteriologist. He studied medicine at the University of Paris and worked there as a clinical aide, 1874–78.
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