Albert Vandel
Albert Vandel (born December 26, 1894 in Besançon , † October 11, 1980 in Toulouse ) was a French zoologist .
Life
Vandel studied biology in the Sorbonne, interrupted by the First World War . In 1917 he received his licentiate and in 1922 he received his doctorate from Maurice Caullery on the regeneration of flatworms. From 1927 he was a professor in Toulouse.
He was considered a leading expert on land isopods (Isopoda) and wrote two volumes about them in the Faune de France series.
From 1948 he was actively involved in setting up a laboratory for biological speleology of the CNRS in the Pyrenees (Grotto of Moulins), which opened in 1954 and of which he was director.
In 1957 he was accepted into the Académie des Sciences .
He also dealt with partly philosophical questions of the origin of life and the history of its development.
Fonts
- La Parthénogenèse . Ed. G. Doin, Paris, 1931
- Essai sur l'origine, l'évolution et la classification des "Oniscoidea" (isopodes terrestres), Laboratoire d'évolution des êtres organisés . Paris, 1943
- L'Homme et l'evolution . Ed. Gallimard, Paris, 1949
- Isopodes terrestres (première partie) . Faune de France volume 64, Ed. P. Lechevalier, Paris, 1960
- Isopodes terrestres (deuxième partie) . Faune de France volume 66, Ed. P. Lechevalier, Paris, 1962
- Biospéologie, la biologie des animaux cavernicoles . Ed. Gauthier-Villars, Paris, 1964
- La Genèse du vivant . Ed. Masson, Paris, 1968
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Recherches expérimentales sur les modes de reproduction des planaires triclades paludicoles, published 1922
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Vandel, Albert |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French zoologist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 26, 1894 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Besançon |
| DATE OF DEATH | October 11, 1980 |
| Place of death | Toulouse |