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Alphonse Milne-Edwards
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Anglo-French zoologist (1835-1900)
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Alphonse Milne-Edwards was a French botanist, ornithologist, zoologist, and university teacher. Born in Paris in 1835, he worked at the Muséum national d'histoire naturelle and resided in Paris. His fields of work included mammalogy, ornithology, carcinology, and medicine. He was educated at the Paris Medical Faculty and served as a doctoral student to Eugène Louis Bouvier.
He was a member of the Société Philomathique de Paris, the French Academy of Sciences, the Saint Petersburg Academy of Sciences, and the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences. He received the Commander of the Legion of Honour and the Grande Médaille d'Or des Explorations. His notable works include *Recueil de figures de crustacés nouveaux ou peu connu* and *Mémoire sur les crustacés décapodes du genre dynomène*. He died in the 5th arrondissement of Paris in 1900.
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Person · Open Library
- Born
- 1835
- Died
- 1900
- Works
- 56
Top works
- Recueil de figures de crustacés nouveaux ou peu connu
- Sur un cas de transformation du pédoncule oculaire en une antenne observé chez une langouste
- Note sur un nouveau genre de chiroptère ...
- Description d'une Nouvelle Espèce de Peramèles provenant de La Nouvelle Guinée
- Mémoire sur les crustacés décapodes du genre dynomène
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- France
- Place of birth
- Paris
- Place of death
- Paris
- Father
- Henri Milne-Edwards
- Occupation
- physician
- Languages spoken
- French
- Doctoral student
- Eugène Louis Bouvier
- Field of work
- pharmacy
- Image
- Alphonse Milne-Edwards par Truchelut et Valkman BNF Gallica.jpg
- Work location
- Paris
- Residence
- Paris
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- Commons category
- Alphonse Milne-Edwards
- member of
- Academy of Sciences of Turin
- date of birth
- 1835-10-13
- date of death
- 1900-04-20
- Commons Creator page
- Alphonse Milne-Edwards
- described by source
- Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary
- author citation (zoology)
- A. Milne-Edwards
- name in native language
- Alphonse Milne-Edwards
- writing language
- French
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