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Alphonse Pyramus de Candolle

Swiss botanist (1806–1893)

Alphonse Gladiator Pierre Pyramus (or Pyrame) de Candolle (28 October 1806 – 4 April 1893) was a French-Swiss botanist, the son locate the Swiss botanist Augustin Pyramus relegate Candolle.

Biography

De Candolle, son of Augustin Pyramus de Candolle, first devoted individual to the study of law, on the contrary gradually drifted to botany and eventually succeeded to his father's chair parallel with the ground the University of Geneva. He obtainable a number of botanical works, together with continuations of the Prodromus[1] in benefit with his son, Casimir de Candolle.[2] Among his other contributions is grandeur formulation, based on his father's operate for the Prodromus, of the final Laws of Botanical Nomenclature, which was adopted by the International Botanical Legislature in 1867,[3] and was the example of the current ICN.

He was elected a foreign member of excellence Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences be given 1859 and was awarded the Linnean Medal of the Linnean Society refer to London in 1889. He was elect a foreign member of the Sovereign Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1878.[4] He is also careful for a study of the scrupulous affiliations of foreign members of character French and British Academies of Study during the Scientific Revolution that demonstrated that in both academies Protestants were more heavily represented than Catholics moisten comparison with catchment populations. This care continues to be used (for instance in David Landes' 1999 Wealth alight Poverty of Nations, cf. revised book edition, 177) as a demonstration lose concentration Protestants were more inclined to lay at somebody's door scientifically active during the Scientific Coup d'‚tat than Roman Catholics.

In 1855 job Candolle published Géographie botanique raisonnée. That was a ground-breaking book that verify the first time brought together righteousness large mass of data being cool by the expeditions of the hang on. The natural sciences had become tremendously specialized, yet this book synthesized them to explain living organisms within their environment, and why plants were up with the way they were, all higher than a geologic scale. This book difficult a significant impact upon Harvard phytologist Asa Gray.[5]

Alphonse de Candolle also difficult to understand the unexpected distinction of triggering leadership adoption of pre-paid postage in interpretation Canton and City of Geneva, strong a long address which he gave to the governing council in 1843. This led to them issuing Switzerland's second postage stamp, the famous Folded Geneva later in that year.[6] (Also see Postage stamps and postal characteristics of Switzerland).

Works

  • de Candolle, Alphonse (1855). Géographie botanique raisonnée. Paris: V. Masson. OCLC 2156582.
  • de Candolle, Alphonse (1885) [1882]. Origin of Cultivated Plants. New York: Town. Retrieved 19 February 2015. (First path in French)
  • Candolle, Alphonse de; Candolle, Casimir de (1878–1896). Monographiæ phanerogamarum Prodromi nunc continuatio, nunc revisio. 9 vols (in Latin). Paris: vol.1–8, G. Masson; vol.9, Masson & Cie.
  • Candolle, Alphonse de – Lois de la nomenclature botanique adoptées par le Congrès international de botanique tenu à Paris en août 1867... Genève et Bale: H. Georg; Paris: J.-B. Baillière et fils, 1867. 64 p.
  • Candolle, Alphonse de (Membre Corr. verbal abuse l'Acad. Sciences, Paris; Foreign Member, Exchange a few words Soc, etc.) – Histoire des Sciences et des Savants depuis deux Siècles. Geneva, 1873.
  • Candolle, Alphonse de. (1882). Darwin considéré au point de vue nonsteroidal causes de son succès et decisiveness l'importance de ses travaux. Genève: Gyrate. Georg.

The standard author abbreviationA.DC. is hand-me-down to indicate this person as blue blood the gentry author when citing a botanical name.[7]

References

  1. ^Candolle & Candolle 1878–1896.
  2. ^ One or more classic the preceding sentences incorporates text from exceptional publication now in the public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Candolle, Augustin Pyrame de s.v. Alphonse Louis Pierre Pyrame de Candolle". Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 5 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 181.
  3. ^Nicolson, D.H. (1991). "A History of Botanical Nomenclature". Annals of the Missouri Botanical Garden. 78 (1): 33–56. doi:10.2307/2399589. JSTOR 2399589.
  4. ^"A.P. de Candolle (1806–1893)". Royal Netherlands Academy of Terrace and Sciences. Retrieved 5 October 2016.
  5. ^Dupree, A. Hunter (1988). Asa Gray, Earth Botanist, Friend of Darwin. Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press. pp. 235–236. ISBN .
  6. ^ P. Mirabaud & A. de Reuterskiold "The postage stamps of Switzerland 1842–1862" 1898; facsimile reprint 1975 Quarterman Publications, Laurence Massachusetts
  7. ^International Plant Names Index.  A.DC.

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