Emmanuel Fauré-Fremiet, ForMemRS, (1883–1971) was a French biologist.

Life

He was the son of the composer

Gabriel Fauré Gabriel Urbain Fauré (; 12 May 1845 – 4 November 1924) was a French composer, organist, pianist and teacher. He was one of the foremost French composers of his generation, and his musical style influenced many 20th-century composers ...

and Marie Fremiet, the daughter of the sculptor

Emmanuel Frémiet Emmanuel Frémiet (6 December 182410 September 1910) was a French sculptor. He is famous for his 1874 sculpture of Joan of Arc in Paris (and its "sister" statues in Philadelphia and Portland, Oregon) and the monument to Ferdinand de Lesseps in S ...

. He was a professor at the Sorbonne, and the Collège de France. At the Institut de Biologie Physicochimique (the Rothschild Institute), he developed diffraction X-Ray, and electron microscopy with

Boris Ephrussi Boris Ephrussi (russian: Борис Самойлович Эфрусси; 9 May 1901 – 2 May 1979), Professor of Genetics at the University of Paris, was a Russo- French geneticist. Boris was born on 9 May 1901 into a Jewish family. His father, ...

References

French biologists 1883 births 1971 deaths Foreign Members of the Royal Society Foreign associates of the National Academy of Sciences Academic staff of the University of Paris Academic staff of the Collège de France 20th-century biologists 20th-century French scientists Protistologists {{France-biologist-stub