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Michel Adanson (1727–1806) was a French botanist, entomologist, anthropologist, and mycologist. Born in Aix-en-Provence, he was educated at Collège Sainte-Barbe and later died in Paris. His work focused on botany and ethnology. He was a member of the Royal Society and the French Academy of Sciences, receiving the awards of Fellow of the Royal Society and Knight of the Legion of Honour.
Adanson authored twenty-three works, including *Histoire de la botanique et plan des familles naturelles des plantes*, *Histoire naturelle du Sénégal*, and *A voyage to Senegal, the isle of Goree and the river Gambia*. His collection items are held at the Muséum national d'histoire naturelle and the Natural History Museum. He is buried at Père Lachaise Cemetery.
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Person · Open Library
- Born
- 1727
- Died
- 1806
- Works
- 23
Top works
- Description d'un arbre d'un nouveau genre
- Lettre au citoyen Chaptal, ministre de l'Intérieur, membre de l'Institut national des sciences et arts, etc. au sujet de l'inscription égyptienne du monument trouvé a Rosette
- Exposé justificatif pour le sieur Réveillon, entrepreneur de la manufacture royale de papiers peints, Fauxbourg Saint-Antoine
- Analyse des principes sur la circulation des denrées, et l'influence du numéraire sur cette circulation
- Cabinet d'histoire naturelle apartenant au S A W à Vienne en Autriche
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Music · MusicBrainz
- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Male
- Origin
- France
- Active from
- 1959-01-01
Discography
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Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- Colorimetric Method for Determination of Sugars and Related Substances
· 1956 · cited 42,301x
- AutoDock4 and AutoDockTools4: Automated docking with selective receptor flexibility
· 2009 · cited 23,184x
- General atomic and molecular electronic structure system
· 1993 · cited 19,130x
- The FAIR Guiding Principles for scientific data management and stewardship
· 2016 · cited 14,631x
- 2021 ESC Guidelines for the diagnosis and treatment of acute and chronic heart failure
· 2021 · cited 12,130x
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Key facts
- Born
- ( 1727-04-07 ) 7 April 1727, Aix-en-Provence
- Died
- 3 August 1806 (1806-08-03) (aged 79)
- Fields
- Naturalist
- Institutions
- Jardin des Plantes
- Author abbrev botany
- Adans.
via Wikipedia infobox
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Encyclopedic overview
Michel Adanson (7 April 1727 – 3 August 1806) was an 18th-century French botanist and naturalist who traveled to Senegal to study flora and fauna. He proposed a "natural system" of taxonomy distinct from the binomial system forwarded by Linnaeus. The standard author abbreviation Adans. is used to indicate this person as the author when citing a botanical name.
Personal history
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Michel Adanson” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.