biography
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Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire, Etienne
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pronunciation:
[zhofrwah sĩt eelair]
| sex:
| male
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| lived:
| (1772–1844)
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| biography:
| Zoologist, born in Etampes, NC France. He studied law, medicine, and science, became professor of zoology in the Museum of Natural History at Paris (1793), and began the great zoological collection. He was one of the scientific commission that accompanied Napoleon to Egypt (1798–1801). In 1809 he was appointed professor of zoology in the University of Paris. He endeavoured to establish the unity of plan in organic structure, and he raised teratology to a science, principally in his Philosophie anatomique (1818–20). |
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