Pierre-Joseph van Beneden
1809–94
Belgian zoologist. MD, Louvain, 1832. Professor of zoology and anatomy, Catholic university of Louvain, 1836. Worked in parasitology and later on Cetacea.
Sources
BNB
DSB.
Bibliography
BNB: Biographie nationale publiée par l’académie royale des sciences, des lettres et des beaux-arts de Belgique. 44 vols., including 16 supplements. Brussels: H. Thiry-Van Buggenhoudt [and others]. 1866–1986.
DSB: Dictionary of scientific biography. Edited by Charles Coulston Gillispie and Frederic L. Holmes. 18 vols. including index and supplements. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons. 1970–90.
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