Émile Maupas
François Émile Maupas (2 July 1842 in
botanist. Maupas contributed to ideas on the life cycle and reproduction of the ciliates. He founded the idea, known as the Maupasian life cycle, that some protists had a definite death following sexual reproduction, contrary to contemporary ideas on protists being immortal. He also identified the existence of mating types in ciliates. He developed culture techniques for a number of organisms and described the nematode Caenorhabditis elegans, which has since become a widely used model organism
in biological studies.
Life and work
Maupas was born in Vaudry, to deputy mayor Pierre Augustin and Marie Adèle Geffroy. After studies at the local schools he joined the
Maupas studied the life-history and reproduction of many species using innovative culture techniques.
Maupas had no formal training in science and worked almost completely in isolation but published in journals. He received an honorary doctorate in 1903 from the University of Heidelberg and was decorated knight of the Legion of Honour in 1909.[12]
Associated published works
He was the author of "Description physique de la République Argentine : d'après des observations personnelles et étrangères", a French translation of
Argentine Republic.[1]
Other written efforts by Maupas include:
- Essai sur la législation des guerres féodales, thèse École des Chartes, 1867.[2]
- Un nouveau Rhabditis; Sur un champignon parasite des Rhabditis (A new Rhabditis; about a fungus parasite of Rhabditis) with René Maire, 1915.[1]
- Works about Émile Maupas:
- Inauguration de la plaque commémorative apposée sur la maison habitée par Emile Maupas à Alger, le mercredi 6 avril 1932, by Maurice Caullery; Académie des sciences (France). Paris : Gauthier-Villars, 1937.
- Emile Maupas : prince des protozologistes, by Edmond Sergent, Alger : Institut Pasteur d'Alger, 1955.[13]
See also
References
- ^ a b c IDREF.fr bibliography
- ^ a b Prosopo Sociétés savantes de France
- ^ Jordan, M. (1916). "Émile Maupas (1842-1916)". Bibliothèque de l'École des chartes. 77 (1): 387–388.
- ^ Maupas, E. (1883). "Contribution à l'étude morphologique et anatomique des infusoires ciliés". Arch. Zool. Exp. Gen. 2. 1: 427–664.
- S2CID 84809243.
- JSTOR 4605260.
- S2CID 82530649.
- ^ Maupas, Émile (1900). "Modes et formes de reproduction des nematodes". Archives de Zoologie Expérimentale et Générale. 8: 463–624. Retrieved 2009-05-27.
- ^ Petymol Biographical Etymology of Marine Organism Names. M
- JSTOR 1311972.
- ^ GBIF Maupasiella
- ^ "Chronique". Bibliothèque de l'École des chartes. 70 (1): 186–188. 1909.
- ^ WorldCat Search publications
- ^ International Plant Names Index. Maupas.
External links
- Emile Maupas, prince des protozoologistes (1955) by Edmond Sergent (biography in French)
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