Alphonse Malaquin, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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French zoologist
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Place of Birth: Escarmain, Hauts-de-France, France
About Alphonse Malaquin
- Alphonse Malaquin (24 October 1868 – 22 April 1949) was a French zoologist born in the village of Cambrésis.
- He is known for his research of Polychaeta (class of annelids). In 1888 he began work as an assistant at the zoological laboratory at the Faculté des Sciences in Lille.
- In 1895 he defended his doctorate with a highly regarded thesis on the annelid family Syllidae, titled Recherches sur les Syllidiens.
- Morphologie.
- Anatomie Reproduction.
- Développement. In 1906 he attained the chair of general and applied zoology at Lille, and during the following years established a laboratory and museum of applied zoology.
- During World War I both facilities sustained extensive damage, with restoration and re-installation taking several years to complete, the museum being reopened to the public as late as 1925.
- In 1919 Malaquin was named chevalier of the Legion d'Honneur, and in 1937 became an officer (year of retirement). A species of monstrillid copepod known as Cymbasoma malaquini (Caullery & Mesnil, 1914) is named after him.
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