Online Encyclopedia

Search over 40,000 articles from the original, classic Encyclopedia Britannica, 11th Edition.

RENE JOACHIM HENRI DUTROCHET (1776-1847)

Online Encyclopedia
Originally appearing in Volume V08, Page 736 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
Spread the word: del.icio.us del.icio.us it!

RENE See also:

JOACHIM See also:HENRI See also:DUTROCHET (1776-1847)  , See also:French physiologist, was See also:born at See also:Chateau de Neon (See also:Indre) on the 14th of See also:November 1776, and died at See also:Paris on the 4th of See also:February 1847 . In 1799 he entered the military marine at See also:Rochefort, but soon See also:left it to join the Vendean See also:army . In 1802 he began the study of See also:medicine at Paris; and he was subsequently appointed See also:chief physician to the See also:hospital at See also:Burgos . After an attack of typhus he returned in 1809 to See also:France, where he devoted himself to the study of the natural sciences . His scientific publications were numerous, and covered a wide See also:field, but his most noteworthy See also:work was embryological . His " Recherches sur l'accroissement et la See also:reproduction See also:des vegetaux," published in the Memoires du museum d' histoire naturelle for 1821, procured him in that See also:year the French See also:Academy's See also:prize for experimental See also:physiology . In 1837 appeared his Memoires pour servir a l'histoire anatomique et physiologique des vegetaux et des animaux, a collection of all his more important biological papers .

End of Article: RENE JOACHIM HENRI DUTROCHET (1776-1847)
[back]
LOUIS DUTENS (1730-1812)
[next]
MICHAEL MADHU SUDAN DUTT (1824—1873)

Additional information and Comments

There are no comments yet for this article.
» Add information or comments to this article.
Please link directly to this article:
Highlight the code below, right click and select "copy." Paste it into a website, email, or other HTML document.