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Henri Milne-Edwards
Henri Milne-Edwards was a French zoologist.
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science · French zoologist (1800–1885) · zoologist · ornithologist · malacologist · university teacher · carcinologist · physician · entomologist · scientific collector · also Henri Milne-Edwards, Milne-Edwards, H. Milne-Edwards
Born 23 October 1800 · Died 29 July 1885 · Q505173
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“I sometimes think that ‘friend’ is just a word I use for all the people I haven't murdered yet.”
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1885· 1 entry
Died 1885-07-29.
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1876· 1 entry
Devoted himself especially to fossil birds and deep-sea exploration
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1862· 1 entry
Succeeded Isidore Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire in the long-vacant chair of zoology
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1861· 1 entry
Career landmark: president of the French Academy of Sciences (1861–1861).
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1856· 2 entries
Won Copley Medal (1856).
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Awarded him the Copley Medal in recognition of his zoological investigations
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1848· 1 entry
Awarded Foreign Member of the Royal Society (1848).
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1842· 1 entry
Was elected a foreign member of the Royal Society
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1841· 1 entry
After the death of Audouin, he succeeded him at the chair of entomology at the Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle
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1834· 1 entry
But subsequently remodelled, which enjoyed an enormous circulation
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1832· 1 entry
At the Collège Central des Arts et Manufactures
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1829· 2 entries
Working in the scientific field of herpetology, he described and named five new species of lizards
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Formed the theme of an elaborate and eulogistic report by Cuvier in the following year
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1800· 1 entry
Born 1800-10-23.
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