Emmanuel Fauré-Fremiet

Emmanuel Fauré-Fremiet
Born29 November 1883
Paris
Died6 November 1971
Paris
AwardsFellow of the Royal Society[1]
Scientific career
InstitutionsCollège de France
University of Paris

Emmanuel Fauré-Fremiet, ForMemRS,[1] (1883–1971) was a French biologist.[2]

Early life

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Fauré-Fremiet was born on 29 December 1883 to the composer Gabriel Fauré and Marie Fremiet, the daughter of the sculptor Emmanuel Frémiet. As a child he had poor health and was privately tutored at home.[1] He was appointed an assistant lecturer in the Museum d'histoire naturelle in 1910, and then lecturer in Comparative embryology at the Collège de France in 1911, working under Louis-Félix Henneguy.

Career

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Fauré-Fremiet was a professor at the Sorbonne, and succeeded Henneguy as chair of comparative embryology at the Collège de France from 1928 to 1954.[3] He published extensively on protozoology, especially the ciliates, on embryology, and experimental cell biology. At the Institut de Biologie Physicochimique (the Rothschild Institute), he developed diffraction X-Ray, and electron microscopy with Boris Ephrussi.[4] He described the unusual cilliate genus Legendrea.[5]

Personal life

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In March 1913, Fauré-Fremiet married Jeanne, daughter of Louis-Félix Henneguy. The couple had no children, and for many years, her sister Suzanne lived with them. Jeanne died in 1967, and Suzanne in 1970. He later married his former assistant M. Hamard in 1971. Fauré-Fremiet died from bronchitis and emphysema on 6 November 1971.[1]

Honours

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Honours and awards received by Fauré-Fremiet included:[1]

References

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  1. ^ a b c d e Willmer, E. N. (1972). "Emmanuel Fauré-Fremiet 1883-1971". Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society. 18: 187–221. doi:10.1098/rsbm.1972.0006.
  2. ^ Corliss, J. O. (1972). "A Man to Remember, E. Fauré-Fremiet (1883-1971): Three-Quarters of a Century of Progress in Protozoology*". The Journal of Protozoology. 19 (3): 389–400. doi:10.1111/j.1550-7408.1972.tb03486.x. PMID 4561484.
  3. ^ "list of professors at Collège de France". www.wikidata.org. Retrieved 2023-08-26.
  4. ^ Lawrence D. Kritzman; Brian J. Reilly; M. B. DeBevoise, eds. (2006). The Columbia history of twentieth-century French thought. Columbia University Press. ISBN 978-0-231-10791-4.
  5. ^ Weiss, James; Andreou, Demetra; Esteban, Genoveva F. (2022). "The Extraordinarily Rare Ciliate Legendrea loyezae Fauré-Fremiet, 1908 (Haptoria, Ciliophora)". Protist. 173 (6): 125912. doi:10.1016/j.protis.2022.125912. PMID 36242851.
  6. ^ List of Royal Society Fellows 1660-2007, Royal Society, retrieved 2023-08-26