Emmanuel Geoffroy, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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French botanist
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Place of Birth: Saintes, Nouvelle-Aquitaine, France
About Emmanuel Geoffroy
- Emmanuel Geoffroy (1862 December 12, Saintes–1894) was a French botanist and explorer. Geoffroy traveled to Martinique and French Guiana in search of latex-yielding trees, but also studied the region's native plants in the genus Robinia after learning that forest Indians of French Guiana used Robinia as fish poisons.
- One in particular, "Robinia" nicou, which is now considered to be Lonchocarpus nicou, was to be the subject of his thesis, French: Contribution Ă l'Ă©tude du Robinia Nicou Aublet au point de vue botanique, chimique et physiologique.In a fact to be discovered posthumously, Geoffroy unknowingly discovered rotenone, which he originally named nicouline.He died in 1894 as a result of a parasitic disease.
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