Michel Luc, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

    

Michel Luc

zoologist

Date of Birth: 07-Feb-1927

Place of Birth: Tunis, Tunis Governorate, Tunisia

Date of Death: 18-Jan-2010

Profession: zoologist, botanist

Nationality: France

Zodiac Sign: Aquarius


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About Michel Luc

  • Michel Luc (7 February 1927 – 18 January 2010) was a French zoologist (nematologist) and one of the founding father of the field of plant-nematology.
  • He spent his career with ORSTOM (Office de la Recherche Scientifique et Technique Outre-Mer), now IRD (Institut de recherche pour le développement).
  • He created the first French nematology laboratory in the ORSTOM research station of Adiopodoumé, near Abidjan (Ivory Coast) in 1955, and a second nematology lab at Dakar Bel-Air (Senegal) in 1969.
  • In 1978, he launched the Revue de Nématologie (soon renamed Fundamental and Applied Nematology) that fused with Nematologica in 1999 to become Nematology, currently the leading nematology journal in the field.
  • He was a world-renowned authority on nematode taxonomy.

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