Louis Mangin

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Louis Mangin (1852–1937)

Louis Alexandre Mangin (8 September 1852, in

mycologist
.

In 1873, he became an associate professor at the Lycée de

Jardin des Plantes
(1920 to 1926).

Mangin was a member of the

Académie des sciences, the Académie d'agriculture de France, the Académie des sciences coloniales and the Société mycologique de France
.

His early research dealt largely with

carbon assimilation.[1] In the early 1890s he is credited with the discovery of callose, a fundamental substance found in the cell membrane of plants.[2][3]

Selected writings

References

  1. (obituary)
  2. ^ [2] Nature, Volume 41 edited by Sir Norman Lockyer
  3. ^ [3] Proceedings of the American Pharmaceutical Association