biography
| name: |
Tournefort, Joseph Pitton de
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pronunciation:
[toornfaw(r)]
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| male
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| lived:
| (1656–1708)
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| biography:
| Physician and botanist, born in Aix-en-Provence, SE France. He travelled in Greece and Turkey with the artist Claude Aubriet, and became professor at the Jardin des Plantes in Paris (1688–1708). His definitions of the genera of plants were of fundamental importance to Linnaeus, who rejected his general classification in favour of one based on the number of the sexual parts of the flower. |
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