Pierre-Paul Grassé
Pierre-Paul Grassé (born November 27, 1895 in Périgueux , † July 9, 1985 in the Château de Rouffillac in Carlux ) was a French zoologist and entomologist. He was an expert on termites .
Grassé received his doctorate in 1926 at the University of Montpellier on the protozoa in the intestines of termites. From 1929 he was a professor in Clermont-Ferrand, where he continued to deal with termites from Africa. In 1937 he became a professor at the Sorbonne and was from 1941 successor to Maurice Caullery on the chair for the evolution of living things (Évolution des êtres organisés). Like his two predecessors on the chair, he was a Neo-Lamarckist.
He is the common in France only briefly Publisher Grassé mentioned Traité de zoology , who from 1952 in 17 volumes (so they 38 individual volumes are partially with multiple volumes) was published by Dunod. It is still being revised today. He also published a three-volume compendium on termites (Termitologia 1982, 1983, 1984). The establishment of the Tropical Research Institute in Makokou in Gabon , which mainly serves primate research, goes back to him . With the CNRS he founded a center for electron microscopy in biology (his own institute was the first biological institute in France to receive an electron microscope in 1955).
In 1948 he became a member of the Académie des Sciences and was its president in 1967. In 1939 he was president of the Société zoologique de France and in 1941 of the Société entomologique de France. He was the commander of the Legion of Honor and multiple honorary doctorates (Brussels, Basel, Bonn, Ghent, Madrid, Barcelona, Sao Paulo).
Fonts
- Parasites et parasitisme, Paris: Armand Collin, 1935
- with Max Aron (1892–1974): Précis de biologie animale, Masson (Paris) 1935, 8th edition 1966
- with Andrée Tétry (1907–1992): Zoologie, 2 volumes, Paris: Gallimard 1963
- Toi, ce petit dieu! essai sur l'histoire naturelle de l'homme, Paris: Albin Michel 1971
- L'évolution du vivant, matériaux pour une nouvelle théorie transformiste, Paris: Albin Michel 1973
- La Défaite de l'amour ou le triomphe de Freud, Albin Michel 1976
- Biologie moléculaire, mutagenèse et évolution, Masson 1978
- L'Homme en accusation: de la biologie à la politique, Albin Michel 1980
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|---|---|
| SURNAME | Grassé, Pierre-Paul |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French zoologist and entomologist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 27, 1895 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Périgueux |
| DATE OF DEATH | July 9, 1985 |
| Place of death | Carlux |