biography
| name: |
Monod, André Théodore
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pronunciation:
[monoh]
| sex:
| male
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| lived:
| (1902–2000)
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| biography:
| Naturalist and explorer, born in Rouen, NW France. He studied at the Sorbonne, and made extensive botanical and geological studies of remote regions of the Sahara. His most memorable trans-Saharan crossing of 560 mi was by camel from Wadan, Mauritania, to Arawan, Mali, made by laying down advance depots of food and water. He subsequently became director of the Institut Français d'Afrique Noire (1938–64), and dean of the Faculty of Sciences at Dakar University, Senegal. |
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