About Maurice Gomont
Lived 1839 – 1909 (aged 69–70). Maurice Gomont was a French botanist and painter.
Maurice-Augustin Gomont (born 1839, in Rouen – died 1909, in Rouen) was a French phycologist.
Works Gomont, M (1892). "Monographie des Oscillariées (Nostocacées Homocystées). Deuxième partie. - Lyngbyées". Annales des Sciences Naturelles, Botanique. 7 (16).
Honours Gomontia, which is a genus of green algae, in the family Gomontiaceae and also Gomontiellaceae, which is a family of cyanobacteria, were both named in 1888 by botanists Jean-Baptiste Édouard Bornet and Charles Henri Marie Flahault after Maurice Gomont. Gomontiellaceae are a family of cyanobacteria, with Gomontiella, a species named in 1901.
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botanist and painter (1839-1909)
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Maurice Gomont was born in 1839 in Rouen.
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Maurice Gomont died in 1909 in Rouen.
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Maurice Gomont was a botanist and painter.
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Maurice Gomont was French.
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