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Alcide d'Orbigny
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French scientist (1802–1857)
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Alcide Dessalines d'Orbigny (1802–1857) was a French botanist, geologist, explorer, and paleontologist. Born in Couëron, he held a professorship and worked for the Muséum national d'histoire naturelle. His fields of work included archaeology, geology, zoology, and paleontology. He was a member of the Société géologique de France and the Academy of Sciences of Turin.
Orbigny received the Grande Médaille d'Or des Explorations. He was the brother of Charles d'Orbigny and the teacher of Jules-René Bourguignat. Among his published works are *Voyage dans les deux Amériques*, *List of the shells of Cuba in the collection of the British museum*, *List of the Shells of South America in the Collection of the British Museum*, *Descripción geográfica, histórica y estadística de Bolivia*, and *Foraminife res fossiles du bassin tertiaire de Vienne(Autriche)*. He died in Pierrefitte-sur-Seine.
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Person · Open Library
- Born
- 1802-09-06
- Died
- 1857-06-30
- Works
- 82
Top works
- List of the shells of Cuba in the collection of the British museum
- Voyage dans les deux Amériques
- List of the Shells of South America in the Collection of the British Museum
- Descripción geográfica, histórica y estadística de Bolivia
- Foraminife res fossiles du bassin tertiaire de Vienne(Autriche)..
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Music · MusicBrainz
- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Male
- Origin
- France
- Active from
- 1806-12-02
- Active to
- 1876-02-14
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Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 7
- Total plays
- 13
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Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- Ephrin-B2 controls VEGF-induced angiogenesis and lymphangiogenesis
· 2010 · cited 1,216x
- A Self-Assembled Monolayer for the Binding and Study of Histidine-Tagged Proteins by Surface Plasmon Resonance
· 1996 · cited 448x
- Mutually exclusive interaction of the CCAAT-binding factor and of a displacement protein with overlapping sequences of a histone gene promoter
· 1987 · cited 283x
- Prodrome de paléontologie stratigraphique universelle des animaux mollusques & rayonnés : faisant suite au Cours élémentaire de paléontologie et de géologie stratigraphiques /
· 1850 · cited 228x
- Contact with a component of the polymerase II holoenzyme suffices for gene activation
· 1995 · cited 227x
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Key facts
- Born
- 6 September 1802 ( 1802-09-06 ) , Couëron , France
- Died
- 30 June 1857 (1857-06-30) (aged 54), Pierrefitte-sur-Seine
- Known for
- malacology, fossils, palaeontology
- Fields
- Natural history
- Institutions
- Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle
- Thesis
- Recherches sur les Ammonites (1846)
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Alcide
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- France
- Place of birth
- Couëron
- Place of death
- Pierrefitte-sur-Seine
- Sibling
- Charles d'Orbigny
- Languages spoken
- French
- Field of work
- stratigraphy
- Image
- Alcide Dessalines d'Orbigny 1802.jpg
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- Commons category
- Alcide d'Orbigny
- date of birth
- 1802-09-06
- date of death
- 1857-06-30
- member of
- Société géologique de France
- name in native language
- Alcide Dessalines d'Orbigny
- student
- Jules-René Bourguignat
- author citation (zoology)
- d'Orbigny
- Commons Creator page
- Alcide d'Orbigny
- P6944
- Alcide d'Orbigny
- birth name
- Alcide Charles Victor Marie Dessalines d'Orbigny
- collection items at
- National Museum of Natural History
- has works in the collection
- Memoria Chilena
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Encyclopedic overview
Alcide Charles Victor Marie Dessalines d'Orbigny ( French pronunciation: [alsid ʃaʁl viktɔʁ maʁi dɛsalin dɔʁbiɲi]; 6 September 1802 – 30 June 1857) was a French naturalist who made major contributions in many areas, including zoology (including malacology), palaeontology, geology, archaeology and anthropology.
D'Orbigny was born in Couëron (Loire-Atlantique), the son of a ship's physician and amateur naturalist. The family moved to La Rochelle in 1820, where his interest in natural history was developed while studying the marine fauna and especially the microscopic creatures that he named "foraminiferans".
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