Jean Rostand 2406048 200571437 2008-03-24T16:46:15Z AlleborgoBot 3813685 robot Adding: [[no:Jean Rostand]] '''Jean Rostand''' ([[October 30]], [[1894]] - [[September 4]], [[1977]]) was a [[France|French]] [[biologist]] and [[philosopher]]. Active as an experimental biologist, Rostand became famous for his work as a [[science writer]], as well as a [[philosopher]] and an activist. His scientific work covered a variety of biological fields such as [[amphibian]] [[embryology]], [[parthenogenesis]] and [[teratogeny]], while his literary output extended into popular science, [[history of science]] and philosophy. He was the son of [[playwright]] [[Edmond Rostand]] and [[poet]]ess [[Rosemonde Gérard]] as well as the brother of novelist and playwright [[Maurice Rostand]]. Following the footsteps of his father, Rostand was elected to the prestigious [[Académie française]] in 1959. Rostand was a dynamic activist in several causes, in particular against [[nuclear proliferation]] and the [[death penalty]]. An [[agnostic]], he demonstrated deep humanist convictions. He wrote several books on the question of [[eugenism]] and the responsibilities of mankind regarding its own fate and its place in nature. He married Andrée Mante in 1920. His son François was born the following year. ==Selected works== * ''Le retour des pauvres '', 1919 - ''Return of the poor'' * ''La loi des riches'', 1920 - ''The law of the rich'' * ''Pendant qu’on souffre encore'', 1921 - ''While suffering endures'' * ''Ignace ou l'Écrivain '', 1923 - ''Ignace or the writer'' * ''Deux angoisses : la mort, l’amour'', 1924 - ''Two anguishes: love and death'' * ''De la vanité et de quelques autres sujets '', 1925 - ''Of vanity and several other subjects'' * ''Les familiotes et autres essais de mystique bourgeoise'', 1925 - ''The familiotes and other essayd of the bourgeois mystique'' * ''De l’amour des idées '', 1926 - ''On the love of ideas'' * ''Le mariage'', 1927 - ''Marriage'' * ''Valère ou l’Exaspéré '', 1927 - ''Valère or The exasperated '' * ''Julien ou Une conscience'', 1928 - ''Julien or A conscience'' * ''Les chromosomes, artisans de l’hérédité et du sexe'', 1929 - ''Chromosomes, artesans of heredity and sex'' * ''De la mouche à l’Homme'', 1930 - ''From fly to man'' * ''L’état présent du transformisme'', 1931 - ''The current state of transformism'' * ''Journal d’un caractère'', 1931 - ''Journal of a character'' * ''L’Évolution des espèces'', 1932 - ''The evolution of species'' * ''Les problèmes de l’hérédité et du sexe'', 1933 - ''The problems of heredity and sex'' * '' L’aventure humaine'', 1933 - ''The human adventure'' * ''La vie des libellules'', 1935 - ''The life of dragonflies'' * ''Insectes'', 1936 - ''Insects'' * ''La nouvelle biologie'', 1937 - ''The new biology'' * ''Biologie et médecine'', 1938 - ''Biology and medicine'' * ''Hérédité et racisme'', 1938 - ''Heredity and racism'' * ''Pensée d’un biologiste'', 1938 - ''Thoughts from a biologist'' * ''La vie et ses problèmes'', 1938 - ''Life and its problems'' * ''Science et génération'', 1940 - ''Science and generation'' * ''Les idées nouvelles de la génétique'', 1941 - ''New ideas in genetics'' * ''L’Homme, introduction à l’étude de la biologie humaine '', 1941 - ''Man, introduction to the study of human biology'' * ''L’Homme, maître de la vie'', 1941 - ''Man, master of life'' * ''Hommes de vérité 1942 - ''Men of truth'' * ''L’avenir de la biologie'', 1943 - ''The future of biology'' * ''La genèse de la vie, histoire des idées sur la génération spontanée '', 1943 - ''Genesis of life, a history of the ideas on spontaneous generation'' * ''La vie des vers à soie '', 1944 - ''The life of silkworms'' * ''Esquisse d’une histoire de la biologie '', 1945 - ''Sketch of a history of biology'' * ''L’avenir de la biologie'', 1946 - ''The future of biology'' * ''Qu’est-ce qu’un enfant ?'', 1946 - ''What is a child?'' * ''Charles Darwin '', 1947 * ''Nouvelles pensées d’un biologiste'', 1947 - ''New thoughts from a biologist'' * ''L’hérédité humaine '', 1948 - ''Human heredity'' * ''Hommes de vérité II '', 1948 - ''Men of truth II'' * ''La biologie et l’avenir humain'', 1949 - ''Biology and the human future'' * ''L’Homme devant la biologie'', 1949 - ''Man facing biology'' * ''La parthénogenèse, reproduction virginale chez les animaux'', 1949 - ''Parthenogenesis, virginal reproduction in animals'' * ''La parthénogenèse animale'', 1949 - ''Animal parthenogenesis'' * ''La génétique des batraciens'', 1951 - ''Batrachian genetics'' * ''Les grands courants de la biologie '', 1951 - ''Great trends in biology'' * ''Les origines de la biologie expérimentale et l’abbé Spallanzani '', 1951 - ''The origins of experimental biology and the abbott Spallanzani'' * ''L’hérédité humaine'', 1952 - ''Human heredity'' * ''Pages d’un moraliste '', 1952 - ''Pages by a moralist'' * ''Ce que nous apprennent les crapauds et les grenouilles'', 1953 - ''What toads and frogs teach us'' * ''La vie, cette aventure'', 1953 - ''Life, that adventure'' * ''Ce que je crois'', 1953 - ''What I believe'' * ''Instruire sur l’Homme'', 1953 - ''To instruct on Man'' * ''Notes d’un biologiste '', 1954 - ''Notes from a biologist'' * ''Les crapauds et les grenouilles et quelques grands problèmes biologiques'', 1955 - ''Toads, frogs and a few great problems in biology'' * ''Le problème biologique de l’individu'', 1955 - ''The biological problem of the individual'' * ''L’Homme en l’an 2000 '', 1956 - ''Man in the year 2000'' * ''Peut-on modifier l’Homme ?'', 1956 - ''Can we modify Man?'' * ''L’atomisme en biologie'', 1956- ''Atomism in biology'' * ''Bestiaire d’amour'', 1958 - ''A bestiary of love'' * ''Aux sources de la biologie'', 1958 - ''At the sources of biology'' * ''Anomalies des amphibiens anoures'', 1958 - ''Anomalies of anurian amphibians'' * ''Science fausse et fausses sciences'', 1958 - ''Erroneous science and false science'' * ''Les origines de la biologie expérimentale '', 1959 - ''Origins of experimental biology'' * ''Carnet d’un biologiste '', 1959 - ''Notepad of a biologist'' * ''Espoirs et inquiétudes de l’homme '', 1959 - ''The hopes and worries of Man'' ==Biography== * Marcel Migeo: ''Les Rostand'', Paris, Stock, [[1973]]. About Edmond, Rosemonde, Jean and Maurice Rostand. ==External links== {{wikiquote}} *[http://rostand.chez.tiscali.fr/ Jean Rostand "homme de vérité"] {{start box}} {{succession box | title=[[List of members of the Académie française#Seat 8|Seat 8]]<br>[[Académie française]]<br>[[1959]]-[[1977]] | before=[[Édouard Herriot]] | after=[[Michel Déon]] | years=}} {{end box}} [[Category:1894 births|Rostand, Jean]] [[Category:1977 deaths|Rostand, Jean]] [[Category:Members of the Académie française|Rostand, Jean]] [[Category:French science writers|Rostand]] [[eo:Jean Rostand]] [[eu:Jean Rostand]] [[fr:Jean Rostand]] [[it:Jean Rostand]] [[he:ז'אן רוסטאן]] [[no:Jean Rostand]] [[pt:Jean Rostand]]