Édouard-Gérard Balbiani
Édouard-Gérard Balbiani (born July 31, 1823 in Port-au-Prince , Haiti , † July 25, 1899 ) was a French embryologist and zoologist .
Balbiani studied natural sciences in Paris with the zoologist Henri Marie Ducrotay de Blainville .
From 1874 until his death in 1899 he was professor of embryology at the Collège de France .
Together with the anatomist Louis-Antoine Ranvier (1835-1922) he founded the journal Archives d'anatomie microscopique . Balbiani discovered the Balbiani ring named after him , see polytene chromosome , and described a number of new taxa of the protozoa .
In 1884 his daughter Laure Balbiani married the psychologist Alfred Binet .
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| SURNAME | Balbiani, Édouard-Gérard |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French embryologist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | July 31, 1823 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Port-au-Prince , Haiti |
| DATE OF DEATH | July 25, 1899 |