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Jean-Pierre-Etienne Vaucher

1763–1841

Swiss botanist and clergyman. Parish priest, Geneva, 1797–1822. Honorary professor of botany, Geneva University, 1798–1807; of ecclesiastical history, 1807–39; rector, 1818–21. Founding member of the Société de physique et d’histoire naturelle de Genève. Wrote extensively on plant physiology.

Source

DSB.

Bibliography

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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