About August Alphonse Derbès
Lived 1818 – 1894 (aged 75). August Alphonse Derbès was a French botanist.
August Alphonse Derbès (8 May 1818, Marseille – 27 January 1894, Marseille) was a French professor of naturalist, zoologist and botanist at the University of Marseille who studied reproduction of sea urchins and of algae. Derbès was the first scientist to observe the fertilization of an egg in an animal when he detailed the process of an envelope forming around the gamete during sea urchin reproduction, a process now known to be associated with Ca2+ release.
With Elisée Reverchon he issued the exsiccata Plantes de France.
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Who was August Alphonse Derbès?
French naturalist (1818-1894)
When was August Alphonse Derbès born?
August Alphonse Derbès was born on 8 May 1818 in Marseille.
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August Alphonse Derbès died on 27 January 1894 in Marseille.
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August Alphonse Derbès was a botanist.
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August Alphonse Derbès was French.
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