Henri Dutrochet 1171161 225790376 2008-07-15T12:24:36Z Plindenbaum 2796168 infobox+ref {{Infobox Scientist |name =Henri Dutrochet |box_width = |image =Replace_this_image_male.svg |image_size =150px |caption =Henri Dutrochet |birth_date =[[November 14]] [[1776]] |birth_place =[[Poitou]] |death_date =[[February 4]] [[1847]] |death_place =[[Paris]] |residence = |citizenship = |nationality =[[France]] |ethnicity = |field =[[physician]]<br/>[[botanist]]<br/>[[physiologist]] |work_institutions = |alma_mater = |doctoral_advisor = |doctoral_students = |known_for = |author_abbrev_bot = |author_abbrev_zoo = |influences = |influenced = |prizes = |footnotes = |signature = }} '''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 | quotes = yes |last=Nezelof |first=Christian |authorlink= |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 | bibcode = | oclc =| id = | url = | language = | format = | accessdate = | laysummary = | laysource = | laydate = | quote = }} *{{cite journal | quotes = yes |last=Nezelof |first=Christian |authorlink= |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 | bibcode = | oclc =| id = | url = | language = | format = | accessdate = | laysummary = | laysource = | laydate = | quote = }} *{{cite journal | quotes = yes |last=Pickstone |first=J V |authorlink= |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 | bibcode = | oclc =| id = | url = | language = | format = | accessdate = | laysummary = | laysource = | laydate = | quote = }} ==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] {{DEFAULTSORT:Dutrochet, René Joachim Henri}} [[Category:French physicians]] [[Category:French biologists]] [[Category:1776 births]] [[Category:1847 deaths]] [[de:Henri Dutrochet]] [[fr:Henri Dutrochet]] [[it:Henri Dutrochet]]