Gaspard Adolphe Chatin (30 November 1813 – 13 January 1901) was a French physician,

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and

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who was born in

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. He was the first to prove that

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was related of

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deficiencies. He studied at the Faculté de Médecine in Paris and received his doctorate in May 1840. In 1841, he became Chief Pharmacist of the Beaujon Hospital in Paris. and in 1859, at the

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. He taught botany at the Ecole Superieure de Pharmacie, which he directed from 1874. In April 1886, there were student riots at the school, and his dismissal was demanded. He retired in August 1886 with the title of honorary director. He was a member of the

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(1853) and the

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(1874). He was a member of the

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, which he led in 1862, 1878, 1886 and 1896. In 1878, he became an Officer of the

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. His son was the botanist and zoologist Joannes Charles Melchior Chatin (1847–1912).

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