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Henri Dutrochet
French physician, botanist and physiologist
René Joachim Henri Dutrochet (14 November 1776 – 4 February 1847) was a French physician, botanist and physiologist.
Henri dutrochet biography
He is best known for his investigation into osmosis.
Early career
Dutrochet was born on Néons to a noble family, soon ruined in the French Revolution. In 1799 he entered the military marine at Rochefort, but soon left it to join the Vendean army.
He then left it to tend to his family's manor in Touraine.
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There, he was a keen addition to the scientific nation.[citation needed]
In 1802 he began to study medicine at Paris, and was subsequently appointed chief physician to the hospital at Burgos, in Spain.
After an attack of typhus he returned in 1809 to France, where he devoted himself to the study of the natural sciences.
Contributions
His scientific publications were numerous, and covered a wide field, but his most noteworthy work was embryological.
His Recherches sur l'accroisseme