Émile Dottrens (21 July 1900 – 29 September 1990) was a
Swiss
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zoologist and nature conservationist.
He became a scientific assistant for zoology at the
Natural History Museum of Geneva
The Natural History Museum of Geneva (in French: ') is a natural history museum in Geneva, Switzerland.
Louis Jurine’s collections of Hymenoptera, Coleoptera, Lepidoptera and Hemiptera are held by the museum.
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in 1942 and was the director of that museum from 1953 to 1969. He wrote several articles about the Swiss freshwater fish species from the genus ''
Coregonus
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''. He has worked for the
IUCN
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, for the Swiss nature conservation organisation
Pro Natura and at the
Council of Europe
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. He was the president of the
International Commission for the Protection of the Alps
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(CIPRA) from 1960 to 1968. In addition he was a member of the
Swiss Academy of Sciences and the
Société de Physique et d'Histoire Naturelle de Genève.
Publications
*Emile Dottrens (editor): ''Le grand livre de la pêche et des poissons''. 2 volumes, 1952
*Emile Dottrens: ''Batraciens et Reptiles d'Europe'', 1963
*Emile Dottrens: ''Sur le Lavaret du lac du Bourget'' Arch, Si. 3,. fasc. 3, 1950 (scientific article)
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References
External links
Short Biography in German
Swiss conservationists
1900 births
1990 deaths
20th-century Swiss zoologists
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