Pierre Paul Dehérain
Pierre -Paul Deherain ( born April 19, 1830 in Paris, † December 7, 1902 ) was a French chemist, plant physiologist and agronomist.
Life and work
Pierre -Paul Deherain worked from 1854 to 1864 as " Préparateur " at the Conservatoire National des Arts et Métiers. In 1859 he received his doctorate with a dissertation on the use of phosphates in agriculture. He then became professor of chemistry at the Ecole Centrale d'Architecture. From 1865 he worked at the Ecole d'Agriculture de Grignon, where he in 1875 founded a Argarstation. From 1861 to 1870 Deherain published the magazine Business scientifique. Since 1872 he was scientific advisor at the Muséum national d' histoire naturelle and head of the newly established laboratory at the museum. On 10 January 1880 he was appointed Professor of Plant Physiology.
In 1875, he was inducted into the Legion of Honor and was appointed on 29 October 1889 one of its officers. On December 12, 1887, the Academy of Sciences elected him to their Member
Pierre -Paul Deherain is best known for his plant physiological studies. He discovered, for example, the respiration of plant roots.
Ehrentaxon
Joseph Decaisne named in his honor, the genus of the plant family Deherainia the Theophrastaceae.
Writings (selection )
- Chimie et physique horticoles. Dusacq, Paris 1854.
- Recherches sur l' emploi agricole of phosphates. Impr A. Hérissey, Evreux 1859 ( dissertation).
- Éléments de chimie. 4 volumes, Paris, 1867-1870 ( with Gaston Tissandier ).
- Cours de chimie agricole, professed à L' École d'agriculture de Grignon. Hachette, Paris, 1873.
- Travaux de la Station de agronomique lÉcole d'agriculture de Grignon. G. Masson, Paris, 1889.