Achilles Valenciennes
1794–1865
French zoologist. Became an assistant naturalist at the Muséum d’histoire naturelle in Paris in 1812. Assisted Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire, Lamarck, Cuvier, and Humboldt. Collaborated with Cuvier on his Histoire naturelle des poissons (1828–49). Professor of annelids, molluscs, and zoophytes, Muséum d’histoire naturelle, 1832. Admitted to the Paris Académie des sciences, 1844.
Sources
Complete dictionary of scientific biography
Larousse encyclopédie, http://www.larousse.fr/encyclopedie/personnage/Valenciennes/148079
Bibliography
Complete dictionary of scientific biography. By Charles Coulston Gillispie, Frederic Lawrence Holmes, and Noretta Koertge. Electronic publication. Detroit: Charles Scribner’s Sons. 2008.
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