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Authorised form of nameBreau; Jean Louis Armand de Quatrefages de (1810 - 1892)
Other forms of nameJean Louis Armand de
Other forms of surnameQuatrefages de Breau
Dates1810 - 1892
NationalityFrench
Place of birthBerthezene, France
Date of birth10 February 1810
Date of death12 January 1892
OccupationPhysician
Research fieldZoology
ActivityEducation:
Strasbourg. MD, DSc
Career:
Practised in Toulouse; Professor of Zoology, Toulouse; moved to Paris (1839); Professor of Natural History, Lycee Napoleon (1850); Professor of Anthropology and Ethnography, Museum of Natural History, Paris
Memberships:
Academie des Sciences (1852)
Membership categoryForeign Member
Date of election03/04/1879
RelationshipsSon of a Protestant farmer
SourcesSources:
Bulloch's Roll
Royal Society codeNA6510
Archives associated with this Fellow
Reference numberTitleDate
EC/1879/09Breau, Jean Louis Armand de Quatrefages de: certificate of election to the Royal Society
NLB/5/1197Copy letter from an unknown correspondent, to Messrs Harrison & Sons25 January 1892
NLB/10/189Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Professor Michael Foster17 October 1894
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