Henri Dutrochet
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|death_date =[[February 4]] [[1847]]
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'''René Joachim Henri Dutrochet''' ([[November 14]] [[1776]] - [[February 4]] [[1847]]) was a [[French people|French]] [[physician]], [[botanist]] and [[physiologist]].
Dutrochet was born in [[Poitou]]. In [[1799]] he entered the military marine at [[Rochefort]], but soon left it to join the [[Vendean]] army. In [[1802]] he began the study of medicine at Paris; and he was subsequently appointed chief physician to the hospital at [[Burgos]]. After an attack of [[typhus]] he returned in [[1809]] to France, where he devoted himself to the study of the [[natural sciences]]. His scientific publications were numerous, and covered a wide field, but his most noteworthy work was [[embryology|embryological]]. His ''Recherches sur l'accroissement et la reproduction des végétaux'', published in the ''Mémoires du museum d'histoire naturelle'' for [[1821]], procured him in that year the [[French Academy]]s prize for experimental physiology. In [[1837]] appeared his ''Mémoires pour servir a l'histoire anatomique et physiologique des végétaux et des animaux'', a collection of all his more important biological papers.
He investigated and described [[osmosis]], [[cellular respiration|respiration]], embryology, and the effect of light on plants. He has been given credit for discovering [[Cell biology]] and cells in plants and the actual discovery of the process of osmosis.
He died in [[Paris]].
The [[Mauritius|Mauritian]] plant genus [[Trochetia]] was named in his honour.
==References==
*{{1911}}
*{{cite journal
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|last=Nezelof
|first=Christian
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|year=[[2003]]|month=Aug.
|title=Henri Dutrochet (1776-1847): an unheralded discoverer of the cell
|journal=[[Annals of diagnostic pathology]]
|volume=7
|issue=4
|pages=264-72
|publisher= |location = [[United States]]| issn = 1092-9134| pmid = 12913852
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*{{cite journal
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|last=Nezelof
|first=Christian
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|year=[[2003]]|month=Mar.
|title=[A researcher in his garden: Henri Dutrochet (1776-1847), the discoverer of the cell]
|journal=[[La Revue du praticien]]
|volume=53
|issue=6
|pages=588-92
|publisher= |location = [[France]]| issn = 0035-2640| pmid = 12749142
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*{{cite journal
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|last=Pickstone
|first=J V
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|year=[[1977]]|month=Jun.
|title=Absorption and osmosis: French physiology and physics in the early nineteenth century
|journal=[[Physiologist]]
|volume=20
|issue=3
|pages=30-7
|publisher= |location = [[UNITED STATES]]| issn = 0031-9376| pmid = 331358
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==See also==
*[[Cell theory]]
==External links==
*[http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/sites/entrez?Db=pubmed&Cmd=ShowDetailView&TermToSearch=12913852&ordinalpos=94&itool=EntrezSystem2.PEntrez.Pubmed.Pubmed_ResultsPanel.Pubmed_RVDocSum Henri Dutrochet (1776-1847): an unheralded discoverer of the cell]
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