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Charles Marie Benjamin Rouget

1824–1904

French physiologist and histologist. Professor of physiology, University of Montpellier, 1860; Muséum d’histoire naturelle, Paris, 1879–93. Noted for his microscopic studies of the physiology of the reproductive organs, contractile tissue, nerve endings, and the eye, and for developing special photographic methods for displaying histological structure.

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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