Émile Maupas
Deceased Person
1842 – 1916
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Who was Émile Maupas?
Émile Maupas was a French librarian, zoologist and botanist.
A student at the École des chartes, he later worked as a paleographic archivist. In 1890 he was named administrative conservateur at the Bibliothéque nationale d'Alger. He was a corresponent member of the Académie des Sciences.
Maupas first described Caenorhabditis elegans in 1900 and isolated it from soil in Algeria. The annelid genus Maupasia is named after him, as is the ascarid genus Maupasiella.
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