Louis Joubin

Louis Marie Adolphe Olivier Édouard Joubin ( born January 27, 1861 in Epinal, † April 24, 1935 in Paris) was a French zoologist and marine Molluskenspezialist. He was a professor at the Muséum national d' histoire naturelle in Paris.

Scientific stations

As assistant to Henri de Lacaze - Duthiers he took over in 1882 the management of the Institute in Banyuls -sur -Mer and two years later the Institute in Roscoff. After he was in 1885 a PhD in the natural sciences, in 1888 his doctorate in Medicine (Topic: Recherches sur la morphology comparée of glandes salivaires ). He then taught at the University of Rennes, where he succeeded by Edmond Perrier took over in 1903 the Chair to molluscs, worms and zoophytes. From 1905 Joubin was president of the Société zoologique de France.

In 1906 he was commissioned by Prince Albert I of Monaco as the first director of helped create by him Oceanographic Museum of Monaco. The management of the Muséum national d' histoire Molluskenabteilung naturelle in Paris had Joubin held from 1917. In 1920 he became a member of the Académie des Sciences in France.

Significant Publications

He published papers on

Honors

According to him the Antarctic sponge Scolymastra joubini by the French sponge specialists Émile Topsent was named in 1916. Scolymastra joubini can be up to 2 meters tall and its life expectancy is estimated at 10,000 years.