Robert Hippolyte Chodat

Robert Hippolyte Chodat (4 June 1865 – 28 April 1934) was a Swiss botanist, pharmacist and phycologist who was a professor. He founded and directed the botanical institute at the University of Geneva. He made collecting expeditions.

Biography Born on 6 April 1865 in Moutier in the Bernese Jura district of the canton of Bern to Ferdinand Chodat and Emma Robert, Chodat attended school in Bienne and Bern, then studied pharmacy and botany in Geneva, where he obtained a federal pharmacy diploma and a doctorate in natural sciences in 1887. In addition to excursions with his students (especially to the Mediterranean basin), Chodat conducted scientific expeditions to Paraguay and the United States.

Selected publications Monographia Polygalacearum, vol.1 1891, vol.2 1893. 1898–1907 : Plantae Hasslerianae (with Emil Hassler). Etude Critique et Experimentale sur le Polymorphisme des Algues, 1909. La Végétation du Paraguay. Résultats Scientifiques d'une Mission Botanique Suisse au Paraguay, (with Wilhelm Vischer 1890–1960). La biologie des plantes: Les plantes aquatiques, 1917.