Jacques Liouville
Jacques Liouville (born December 5, 1879 in Paris ; June 15, 1960 in Rabat ) was a French medic, explorer and naturalist.
His father Henri Liouville (1837-1887) was a professor of medicine in Paris and a member of parliament and nephew of the mathematician Joseph Liouville . His mother Marie Durvis (1854–1936) later married Pierre Waldeck-Rousseau , who became his stepfather. Liouville received his doctorate in medicine in Paris in 1905 with a dissertation on osteomyelitis (Etude sur l'anatomo-pathologique et le traitement de l'ostéomyélite de l'extrémité inférieure du fémur). From 1908 to 1910 he accompanied his uncle Jean-Baptiste Charcot on his second expedition on the Pourquoi Pas? to the Antarctic. On his return he published about the whales of the Antarctic.
Liouville was a doctor and marine biologist and from 1920 to 1937 director of the Institut Scientifique Chérifien in Rabat . Charcot named Liouville Point on Petermann Island in Antarctica after him.
Fonts
- Cétacés de l'Antarctique (Baleinoptères, Ziphiidés, Delphinidés), Paris: Masson 1913
Web links
- Information on Jacques Liouville in the database of the Bibliothèque nationale de France .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Liouville, Jacques |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French medic, explorer and naturalist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 5, 1879 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Paris |
| DATE OF DEATH | June 15, 1960 |
| Place of death | Rabat |