The following is a list persons who have held the chairs of the

Muséum national d'histoire naturelle The French National Museum of Natural History, known in French as the ' (abbreviation MNHN), is the national natural history museum of France and a ' of higher education part of Sorbonne Universities. The main museum, with four galleries, is loc ...

. The number of chaired positions, and their subject areas, have evolved since the creation of the original twelve chairs, some being subdivided into two positions and others removed. (Titles translated) * Animal Anatomy ** 1793 to 1802: Jean-Claude Mertrud ** 1802 to 1832:

Georges Cuvier Jean Léopold Nicolas Frédéric, Baron Cuvier (; 23 August 1769 – 13 May 1832), known as Georges Cuvier, was a French natural history, naturalist and zoology, zoologist, sometimes referred to as the "founding father of paleontology". Cuvier ...

. This chair was renamed ''Comparative Anatomy''. ***Comparative Anatomy **** 1832 to 1850:

Henri Marie Ducrotay de Blainville Henri Marie Ducrotay de Blainville (; 12 September 1777 – 1 May 1850) was a French zoologist and anatomist. Life Blainville was born at Arques, near Dieppe. As a young man he went to Paris to study art, but ultimately devoted himself to natur ...

**** 1850 to 1855:

Georges Louis Duvernoy Georges Louis Duvernoy (6 August 1777, Montbéliard, Doubs – 1 March 1855) was a French zoologist. He assisted Georges Cuvier in writing ''Leçons d'anatomie comparée''. He was elected a member of the French Academy of Sciences in 1847 and a fo ...

**** 1855 to 1868: Etienne Serres **** 1868 to 1879:

Paul Gervais Paul Gervais full name François Louis Paul Gervais (26 September 1816 – 10 February 1879) was a French palaeontologist and entomologist. Biography Gervais was born in Paris, where he obtained the diplomas of doctor of science and of medicine ...

**** 1879 to 1894:

Georges Pouchet Charles Henri Georges Pouchet (26 February 1833 – 29 March 1894) was a French naturalist and anatomist. Life He was born in Rouen, the son of naturalist Félix Archimède Pouchet (1800–1872). In 1865 he became chief of anatomical work ...

**** 1894 to 1902:

Henri Filhol Henri Filhol Henri Filhol (13 May 1843 – 28 April 1902) was a French medical doctor, malacologist and naturalist born in Toulouse. He was the son of Édouard Filhol (1814-1883), curator of the Muséum de Toulouse. After receiving his early e ...

**** 1903 to 1921:

Edmond Perrier Jean Octave Edmond Perrier (9 May 1844 – 31 July 1921) was a French zoologist born in Tulle. He is known for his studies of invertebrates (annelids and echinoderms). He was the brother of zoologist Rémy Perrier (1861–1936). Career On advice f ...

**** 1922 to 1941: Raoul Anthony **** 1942: Empty **** 1943 to 1960:

Jacques Millot Jacques Millot (9 July 1897, Beauvais – 23 January 1980, Paris) was a French arachnologist, who also made significant contributions in the fields of ichthyology and ethnology. Biography He studied histology under Justin Marie Jolly at th ...

**** 1961: Empty **** 1962 to 1984:

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**** 1984 to 2001: Empty *Human Anatomy ** 1793 to 1832: Antoine Portal ** 1832 to 1838: Pierre Flourens. This chair was renamed ''Anatomy and Natural History of Man''. *** Anatomy and Natural History of Man **** 1839 to 1855: Etienne Serres. This chair was renamed ''Anthropology''. ***** Anthropology ****** 1855 to 1892:

Jean Louis Armand de Quatrefages de Bréau Jean Louis Armand de Quatrefages de Bréau (10 February 1810 – 12 January 1892) was a French biologist. Life He was born at Berthézène, in the commune of Valleraugue (Gard), the son of a Protestant farmer. He studied science and then medici ...

****** 1892 to 1908: Ernest Hamy ****** 1909 to 1927: René Verneau ****** 1928 to 1936:

Paul Rivet Paul Rivet (7 May 1876, Wasigny, Ardennes – 21 March 1958) was a French ethnologist known for founding the Musée de l'Homme in 1937. In his professional work, Rivet is known for his theory that South America was originally populated in p ...

. This chair was renamed ''Ethnology of Modern Man and Fossilized Man'' when the

Musée de l'Homme The Musée de l'Homme ( French, "Museum of Mankind" or "Museum of Humanity") is an anthropology museum in Paris, France. It was established in 1937 by Paul Rivet for the 1937 ''Exposition Internationale des Arts et Techniques dans la Vie Moderne' ...

was created. ******* Ethnology of Modern Man and Fossilized Man ******** 1937 to 1940: Paul Rivet ******** 1941 to 1944: Henri Vallois ******** 1945 to 1949: Paul Rivet ******** 1950 to 1959: Henri Vallois ******** 1960 to 1967: Henri Vallois. This chair was renamed ''Anthropology and Ethnology''. ********* Anthropology and ethnology ********** 1968 to 1970: Robert Gessain. This chair was renamed ''Anthropology''. *********** Anthropology ************ 1970 to 1979: Robert Gessain ************ 1980 to 1983:

Yves Coppens Yves Coppens (9 August 1934 – 22 June 2022) was a French anthropologist. A graduate from the University of Rennes and Sorbonne, he studied ancient hominids and had multiple published works on this topic, and also produced a film. In October 2 ...

************ 1983 to 1985: unknown * Comparative Physiology ** 1837-1838:

Frédéric Cuvier Georges-Frédéric Cuvier (28 June 1773 – 24 July 1838) was a French zoologist and paleontologist. He was the younger brother of noted naturalist and zoologist Georges Cuvier. Career Frederic was the head keeper of the menagerie at the Muséu ...

** 1838-1867: Pierre Flourens. This chair was exchanged with the chair of ''General Physiology'' by the faculty of Sciences in Paris. *** 1868-1879:

Claude Bernard Claude Bernard (; 12 July 1813 – 10 February 1878) was a French physiologist. Historian I. Bernard Cohen of Harvard University called Bernard "one of the greatest of all men of science". He originated the term ''milieu intérieur'', and the a ...

*Chemistry ** 1779 to 1793: Antoine-Louis Brongniart ** 1804 to 1830:

Louis-Nicolas Vauquelin Prof. Louis Nicolas Vauquelin FRS(For) HFRSE (16 May 1763 – 14 November 1829) was a French pharmacist and chemist. He was the discoverer of both chromium and beryllium. Early life Vauquelin was born at Saint-André-d'Hébertot in Normandy, Fr ...

** 1830 to 1850:

Michel Eugène Chevreul Michel Eugène Chevreul (31 August 1786 – 9 April 1889) was a French chemist and centenarian whose work influenced several areas in science, medicine, and art. His early work with animal fats revolutionized soap and candle manufacturing and led ...

. This chair was renamed ''Chemistry as Applied to Organic Compounds'' (Organic Chemistry). *** Chemistry as Applied to Organic Compounds *** 1850 to 1889: Michel Eugène Chevreul **** 1890 to 1915: Léon-Albert Arnaud **** 1915 to 1919: unknown **** 1919 to 1925: Louis-Jacques Simon **** 1926 to 1927: unknown **** 1928 to 1936: Richard Fosse. This chair joined with the chair of botany to become the chair of ''Organic and Physical Chemistry of Plants''. ***** Organic and Physical Chemistry of Plants ****** 1936 to 1940: Richard Fosse ****** 1941: unknown. This chair was renamed ''Chemistry as Applied to Organic Compounds''. ******* Chemistry as Applied to Organic Compounds ******** 1941 to 1957: Charles Sannié ******** 1958 to 1967: Charles Mentzer ******** 1968: unknown ******** 1969 to 1989: Darius Molho ******** 1989 to 2001: not assigned *General Chemistry ** 1793 to 1809: Antoine-François Fourcroy ** 1809 to 1811: unknown ** 1811 to 1832:

André Laugier André Laugier (1 August 1770, in Lisieux – 19 April 1832, in Paris) was a French chemist, pharmacist and mineralogist. He was a cousin to famed chemist Antoine François Fourcroy and the father of astronomer Paul Auguste Ernest Laugier (18 ...

** 1832 to 1850:

Joseph-Louis Gay-Lussac Joseph Louis Gay-Lussac (, , ; 6 December 1778 – 9 May 1850) was a French chemist and physicist. He is known mostly for his discovery that water is made of two parts hydrogen and one part oxygen (with Alexander von Humboldt), for two laws ...

. This chair was renamed ''Chemistry as Applied to Inorganic Compounds''. *** Chemistry as Applied to Inorganic Compounds **** 1850 to 1892:

Edmond Frémy Edmond Frémy (; 28 February 1814 – 3 February 1894) was a French chemist. He is perhaps best known today for Frémy's salt, a strong oxidizing agent which he discovered in 1845. Fremy's salt is a long-lived free radical that finds use as a s ...

. This chair was removed. *Plants in the Countryside (literal translation) ** 1793 to 1826: Antoine-Laurent de Jussieu ** 1826 to 1853:

Adrien-Henri de Jussieu Adrien-Henri de Jussieu (23 December 1797 – 29 June 1853) was a French botanist. Born in Paris as the son of botanist Antoine Laurent de Jussieu, he received the degree of Doctor of Medicine in 1824 with a treatise of the plant family (biol ...

. This chair was removed and replaced by the chair of paleontology. *Botany in the Museum ** 1793 to 1833:

René Desfontaines René (''Born again (Christianity), born again'' or ''reborn'' in French language, French) is a common given name, first name in French-speaking, Spanish-speaking, and German-speaking countries. It derives from the Latin name Renatus. René is th ...

** 1833 to 1857: Adolphe Brongniart. This chair was renamed ''Botany and Plant Physiology''. *** Botany and Plant Physiology **** 1857 to 1874: Adolphe Brongniart. This chair was renamed ''Botany, Organology and Plant Physiology''. ***** Botany, Organology and Plant Physiology ****** 1874 to 1876: Adolphe Brongniart ****** 1876 to 1879: unknown ****** 1879 to 1914: Philippe Van Tieghem ****** 1914 to 1918: unknown ****** 1919 to 1932:

Julien Noël Costantin Julien Noël Costantin (16 August 1857 – 17 November 1936) was a French botanist and mycologist who was a native of Paris. He studied at École Normale Supérieure on the Rue d'Ulm. In 1881 he received his license in natural history and two y ...

****** 1933: unknown. This chair was renamed ''Comparative Anatomy of Current Plants and Fossils'' and was removed in 1934. It was restored in 1937. ******* Comparative Anatomy of Current Plants and Fossils ******** 1938 to 1944:

Paul Bertrand Paul Charles Édouard Bertrand (10 July 1879, Loos-lez-Lille – 24 February 1944, Paris) was a French paleobotanist. He was the son of botanist Charles Eugène Bertrand (1851–1917). He studied at the University of Lille, receiving his d ...

******** 1945 to 1958: Auguste Loubière. This chair was changed to ''Plant Physics''. *** Plant Physics **** 1857 to 1897: Georges Ville **** 1898 to 1925: Léon Maquenne **** 1926 to 1931: Marc Bridel **** 1931 to 1934: unknown. This chair was removed in 1935. It was restored in 1959. **** 1959 to 1960: Pierre Donzelot **** 1961 to 1962: Charles Sadron. This chair was renamed ''Biophysics''. ***** Biophysics ****** 1962 to 1975: Charles Sadron ****** 1976 to 2001: Claude Hélène * Botany (Classification and Natural Families) ** 1874 to 1905:

Édouard Bureau Louis Édouard Bureau (25 May 1830 in Nantes – 14 December 1918 in Paris) was a French physician and botanist. Édouard Bureau began his medical studies in Nantes in 1848, where he held the post of director of the Muséum de Nantes (Nante ...

. After the creation of the chair of ''Botany (Classification and Natural Families of Cryptogams)'', this chair was reduced to the Phanerogams (Spermatophytes). *** Botany (Classification and Natural Families of Phanerogams **** 1906 to 1931: Henri Lecomte **** 1931 to 1933:

Jean-Henri Humbert Jean-Henri Humbert (24 January 1887 – 20 October 1967) was a French botanist born in Paris. He studied physics, chemistry and natural sciences in Rennes and Paris, and following a scientific excursion to Madagascar, he worked as a university as ...

. This chair was renamed ''Phanerogamy''. ***** Phanerogamy ****** 1933 to 1957: Jean-Henri Humbert ****** 1958 to 1968:

André Aubréville André Aubréville (30 November 1897, in Pont-Saint-Vincent (Meurthe-et-Moselle) – 11 August 1982, in Paris) was a French botanist, professor at the National Museum of Natural History, France, National Museum of Natural History in Paris and a ...

****** 1969 to 1985: Jean-François Leroy. ****** 1986 to 2001: Philippe Morat *** Botany (Classification and Natural Families of Cryptogams **** 1905 to 1931: Louis Mangin **** 1932 to 1932: Pierre Allorge. This chair was renamed ''Cryptogamy''. ***** Cryptogamy ****** 1933 to 1944: Pierre Allorge ****** 1945 to 1973:

Roger Heim Roger Heim (February 12, 1900 – September 17, 1979) was a French botanist specialising in mycology and tropical phytopathology. He was known for his studies describing the anatomy of the mushroom hymenium, the systematics and phylogeny of high ...

****** 1974: unknown ****** 1975 to 1982: Suzanne Jovet-Ast ****** 1983 to 2001: not assigned * Horticulture (Agriculture and Culture of Gardens, Vineyards and Orchards) ** 1793 to 1824:

André Thouin André Thouin (10 February 1747 – 24 October 1824) was a French botanist. Thouin studied botany under Bernard de Jussieu, and in 1793 attained the chair of horticulture at the Muséum national d'histoire naturelle in Paris. He was a good ...

** 1825 to 1828: Louis-Augustin Bosc d’Antic ** 1828 to 1850:

Charles-François Brisseau de Mirbel Charles-François Brisseau de Mirbel (27 March 1776 – 12 September 1854) was a French botanist and politician. He was a founder of the science of plant cytology. A native Parisian, at the age of twenty, he became an assistant-naturalist with ...

** 1850 to 1882:

Joseph Decaisne Joseph Decaisne (7 March 1807 – 8 January 1882) was a French botanist and agronomist. He became an ''aide-naturaliste'' to Adrien-Henri de Jussieu (1797-1853), who served as the chair of rural botany. It was during this time that he began to stu ...

** 1883: unknown ** 1884 to 1901: Maxime Cornu ** 1901 to 1919: Julien Costantin ** 1920 to 1932: Désiré Bois ** 1932 to 1956:

André Guillaumin André Louis Joseph Edmond Armand Guillaumin (21 June 1885 in Arrou – 29 May 1974 in Athis-Mons) was a French Botany, botanist. He obtained his License#Academy, license in biology in 1906 and began work in the ''Muséum national d'histoire ...

** 1956 to 1956: unknown. This chair was renamed ''Applied Plant Biology''. *** Applied Plant Biology **** 1961 to 1985: Jean-Louis Hamel * Ecology and the Protection of Nature ** 1955 to 1958:

Georges Kuhnholtz-Lordat Georges Kuhnholtz-Lordat (8 January 1888 in Montpellier – 5 March 1965 in Montpellier) was a French agronomist and phytogeographer. From 1913 he served as ''chef de travaux'' at the École nationale agronomique in Montpelier. He later rece ...

. This chair was renamed ''General Ecology''. *** General Ecology. **** 1960 to 1962:

Paul Rémy Paul Rémy (17 February 1923 – 14 March 2001) was a French No. 1 tennis player. He was active in the 1950s, playing in Wimbledon, the US Open, the French Open and the Davis Cup.

**** 1963 to 1983: Claude Delamare-Deboutteville. In 1983 this chair was transformed into the ''Service for the Conservation of Nature'' whose first person in charge was François Terrasson. *Zoology (Quadrupeds, Cetacea, Birds, Reptiles, Fish) ** 1793 to 1794:

Étienne Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire Étienne Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire (15 April 177219 June 1844) was a French naturalist who established the principle of "unity of composition". He was a colleague of Jean-Baptiste Lamarck and expanded and defended Lamarck's evolutionary theories. ...

. This chair was subdivided into two chairs: ***Zoology (Mammals and Birds) **** 1794 to 1841:

**** 1841 to 1861:

Isidore Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire Isidore Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire (16 December 1805 – 10 November 1861) was a French zoologist and an authority on deviation from normal structure. In 1854 he coined the term ''éthologie'' (ethology). Biography He was born in Paris, the son ...

**** 1862 to 1876: Henri Milne Edwards **** 1876 to 1900:

Alphonse Milne-Edwards Alphonse Milne-Edwards (Paris, 13 October 1835 – Paris, 21 April 1900) was a French mammalogist, ornithologist, and carcinologist. He was English in origin, the son of Henri Milne-Edwards and grandson of Bryan Edwards, a Jamaican planter who se ...

**** 1900 to 1906:

Émile Oustalet Jean-Frédéric Émile Oustalet (24 August 1844 – 23 October 1905 Saint-Cast) was a French zoologist.Hellmayr CE (1906). "Emile Oustalet bituary. ''Ornithologische Monatsberichte'' 14 (4): 57-59Scan Oustalet was born at Montbéliard, in the de ...

**** 1906 to 1926: Édouard Trouessart **** 1926 to 1947: Édouard Bourdelle **** 1948: unknown **** 1949 to 1962:

Jacques Berlioz Jacques Berlioz (9 December 1891, Paris – 21 December 1975) was a French zoologist and ornithologist, specializing in hummingbirds. He was a grand-nephew of composer Hector Berlioz (1803–1869). Berlioz was born in Paris, where the family home ...

**** 1963: not assigned **** 1964 to 1985:

Jean Dorst Jean Dorst (7 August 1924 – 8 August 2001) was a French ornithologist. Dorst was born at Mulhouse and studied biology and paleontology at the Faculty of Sciences of the University of Paris. In 1947 he joined the staff of the Muséum national d' ...

**** 1985 to 2001: not assigned ***Zoology (Reptiles and Fish) **** 1795 to 1825: Bernard Germain Étienne de Laville-sur-Illon, comte de Lacépède. (N.b. 1825 is the year of Lacépède's death, but actually Duméril replaced him in the chair of zoology as early as 1803 because Lacépède, who was occupied with his political appointments, relinquished his professorship. **** 1825 to 1857:

André Marie Constant Duméril André Marie Constant Duméril (1 January 1774 – 14 August 1860) was a French zoologist. He was professor of anatomy at the Muséum national d'histoire naturelle from 1801 to 1812, when he became professor of herpetology and ichthyology. His ...

**** 1857 to 1870:

Auguste Duméril Auguste Henri André Duméril (30 November 1812 – 12 November 1870) was a French zoologist. His father, André Marie Constant Duméril (1774-1860), was also a zoologist. In 1869 he was elected as a member of the Académie des sciences. Duméril ...

**** 1870 to 1875:

Émile Blanchard Charles Émile Blanchard (6 March 1819 – 11 February 1900) was a French zoologist and entomologist. Career Blanchard was born in Paris. His father was an artist and naturalist and Émile began natural history very early in life. When he wa ...

(who held the chair during a period of transition) **** 1875 to 1909:

Léon Vaillant Léon Louis Vaillant (; 11 November 1834 – 24 November 1914) was a French zoologist. He is most famous for his work in the areas of herpetology, malacology, and ichthyology. In 1854 he graduated from the College d'Arras, followed by studie ...

**** 1910 to 1937:

Louis Roule Louis Roule (; 20 December 1861 – 30 July 1942) was a French zoologist born in Marseille. In 1881 he obtained a degree in natural sciences at Marseille, followed by his doctorate of sciences (1884) at Paris with a thesis on ascidians of coastal ...

**** 1937 to 1943:

Jacques Pellegrin Jacques Pellegrin (12 June 1873, Paris – 12 August 1944) was a French zoologist. In Paris, he worked under zoologist Léon Vaillant (chair of reptiles and fishes) at the ''Muséum national d'histoire naturelle''. From 1897, Pellegrin served a ...

**** 1944 to 1956:

Léon Bertin Léon Bertin (8 April 1896, Paris – 5 February 1956, Saint-Amand-de-Vendôme) was a French zoologist. He was born in the 14th arrondissement of Paris, and died in the Loir-et-Cher Department of France, in a car accident. Biography ...

**** 1957 to 1975: Jean Guibé. This chair was subdivided: The fish were transferred to the chair of ''Dynamics of Aquatic Populations'' and became the chair of ''General and Applied Ichthyology''. This chair was then renamed ''Zoology (Reptiles and Amphibians)''. ***** Zoology (Reptiles and Amphibians) ****** 1977 to 1998: Édouard-Raoul Brygoo ****** 1998 to 2001: not assigned ***** Dynamics of Aquatic Populations ****** 1975:

Jacques Daget Jacques Daget (30 June 1919, Vineuil – 29 June 2009), was a French ichthyologist. He was a professor at the National Museum of Natural History, in Paris. Several marine species have been named after him. Species named after him Species named ...

. This chair was renamed ''General and Applied Ichthyology''. ******* General and Applied Ichthyology ******** 1976 to 1984: Jacques Daget ******** 1985 to 2001: Marie-Louise Bauchot (''de facto'' in office although not officially recognised) Zoology (Insects, Worms and Microscopic Animals) See:

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(1987), ''French entomologists (1750-1950)''. Editions INRA/OPIE. (In French) ** 1793 to 1829: Jean-Baptist de Lamarck. With his death, this chair was subdivided into two chairs: *** Natural History of Shellfish, Arachnids and the Insects or Articulated Animals **** 1830 to 1833:

Pierre André Latreille Pierre André Latreille (; 29 November 1762 – 6 February 1833) was a French zoologist, specialising in arthropods. Having trained as a Roman Catholic priest before the French Revolution, Latreille was imprisoned, and only regained his freedom ...

**** 1833 to 1841: Victor Audouin **** 1841 to 1862: Henri Milne Edwards **** 1864 to 1894:

**** 1895 to 1917:

Eugène Louis Bouvier Eugène Louis Bouvier (9 April 1856, in Saint-Laurent-en-Grandvaux – 14 January 1944, in Paris) was a French entomologist and carcinologist. Bouvier was a professor at the Muséum national d'histoire naturelle. Biography Following graduation at ...

. This chair is then restricted to only insects and is renamed ''Entomology''. ***** Entomology ****** 1917 to 1931: Eugène Louis Bouvier ****** 1931 to 1950:

René Jeannel René Jeannel (23 March 1879 – 20 February 1965) was a French entomologist.Jean-Jacques Amigo, « Jeannel (René, Gabriel, Marie) », in Nouveau Dictionnaire de biographies roussillonnaises, vol. 3 Sciences de la Vie et de la Terre, Perpignan, ...

****** 1951 to 1955:

Lucien Chopard Lucien Chopard (31 August 1885 – 16 November 1971) was a French entomologist. Chopard was born in Paris. He graduated as a Doctor of Science in 1920 at the Faculté des sciences de Paris with a thesis entitled ''Recherches sur la conformation ...

****** 1956 to 1960:

Eugène Séguy Eugene Séguy (21 April 1890 – 1 June 1985) was a French entomologist and artist who specialised in Diptera. He held a chair of entomology at the Muséum national d'histoire naturelle in Paris from 1956 to 1960. He is also known for establishing ...

****** 1961: unknown ****** 1962 to 1963: Alfred Balachowsky. This chair is renamed ''General and Applied Entomology''. ******* General and Applied Entomology ******** 1963 to 1974: Alfred Balachowsky ******** 1975 to 1987: Jacques Carayon ******** 1987 to 2000: Claude Caussanel ******** 2000 to 2001:

Loïc Matile Loïc Henri Marcel Matile (26 June 1938 – 10 June 2000, in Paris) was a French entomologist who specialised in Diptera (Bolitophilidae, Diadocidiidae, Keroplatidae, Lygistorrhinidae, Mycetophilidae). Matile worked at the Muséum national d'hist ...

*** Natural History of Mollusks, Worms and Zoophytes **** 1830 to 1832: Henri Marie Ducrotay de Blainville **** 1832 to 1865:

Achille Valenciennes Achille Valenciennes (9 August 1794 – 13 April 1865) was a French zoologist. Valenciennes was born in Paris, and studied under Georges Cuvier. His study of parasitic worms in humans made an important contribution to the study of parasitology. ...

**** 1865 to 1869:

Henri de Lacaze-Duthiers Félix Joseph Henri de Lacaze-Duthiers (15 May 1821 – 21 July 1901) was a French biologist, anatomist and zoologist born in Montpezat, Lot-et-Garonne, Montpezat in the department of Lot-et-Garonne. He was a leading authority in the field of mal ...

**** 1869 to 1875:

Gérard Paul Deshayes Gérard Paul Deshayes (; 13 May 1795 – 9 June 1875) was a French geologist and conchologist. Career He was born in Nancy, France, Nancy, his father at that time being professor of experimental physics in the École Centrale of the département ...

**** 1876 to 1903: Edmond Perrier **** 1903 to 1917:

Louis Joubin Louis Marie Adolphe Olivier Édouard Joubin (27 February 1861 in Épinal – 24 April 1935 in Paris) was a professor at the Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle in Paris. He published works on nemerteans, chaetognatha, cephalopods, and other ...

. This chair is then restricted to mollusks and zoophytes is renamed ''Malacology''. ***** Malacology ****** 1917 to 1935: Louis Joubin ****** 1935 to 1942:

Louis Germain Alfred Louis Pierre Germain (8 January 1878 – 18 October 1942) was a French malacologist born in Niort, department Deux-Sèvres. He studied in Angers and Paris, obtaining his doctorate of sciences in 1907. Later he worked under Louis Joubin in ...

****** 1943 to 1970: Édouard Fischer-Piette. This chair is then attached to that of ''Biology of Marine Invertebrates''. ******* Biology of Marine Invertebrates ******** 1966 to 2001: Claude Lévi *** Zoology (Worms and Crustaceans) **** 1917 to 1937: Charles Gravier **** 1938 to 1954:

Louis Fage Jean-Louis Fage (30 September 1883, in Limoges – 1964, in Dijon) was a French marine biologist and arachnologist. A native of Limoges, he studied biology at the Sorbonne and in the laboratory at Saint-Vaast-la-Hougue. In 1906 he obtained his do ...

**** 1955 to 1955:

Max Vachon Max or MAX may refer to: Animals * Max (dog) (1983–2013), at one time purported to be the world's oldest living dog * Max (English Springer Spaniel), the first pet dog to win the PDSA Order of Merit (animal equivalent of OBE) * Max (gorilla) (1 ...

. The worms were separated from the arthropods. The chair of ''Zoology (Arthropods) was then created''. ***** Zoology (Worms) ****** 1960 to 1990:

Alain Chabaud Alain Chabaud (13 March 1923 – 11 March 2013) was a French parasitologist, mainly a specialist of nematodes and sporozoa. He was the Director of the Laboratoire de Zoologie (Vers) in the Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle in Paris from 1960 t ...

***** Zoology (Arthropods) ****** 1960 to 1978: Max Vachon ****** 1979 to 2001: Yves Coineau * Entomology of Colonial Agriculture ** 1942 to 1958 Paul Vayssière. This chair was then renamed ''Entomology of Tropical Agriculture''. *** Entomology of Tropical Agriculture **** 1958 to 1960 Paul Vayssière. This chair was then removed. *Mineralogy ** 1793 to 1800:

Louis Jean-Marie Daubenton Louis Jean-Marie Daubenton (29 May 1716 – 1 January 1800) was a French naturalist and contributor to the ''Encyclopédie ou Dictionnaire raisonné des sciences, des arts et des métiers''. Biography Daubenton was born at Montbard, Côte-d' ...

** 1800 to 1802:

Déodat Gratet de Dolomieu Dieudonné Sylvain Guy Tancrède de Gratet de Dolomieu usually known as Déodat de Dolomieu (; 23 June 175028 November 1801) was a French geologist. The mineral and the rock Dolomite (rock), dolomite and the largest summital crater on the Piton d ...

** 1802 to 1822:

René Just Haüy René Just Haüy () FRS MWS FRSE (28 February 1743 – 1 June 1822) was a French priest and mineralogist, commonly styled the Abbé Haüy after he was made an honorary canon of Notre Dame. Due to his innovative work on crystal structure and hi ...

** 1822 to 1847:

Alexandre Brongniart Alexandre Brongniart (5 February 17707 October 1847) was a French chemist, mineralogist, geologist, paleontologist, and zoologist, who collaborated with Georges Cuvier on a study of the geology of the region around Paris. Observing fossil content ...

** 1847 to 1857: Armand Dufrénoy ** 1857 to 1876:

Gabriel Delafosse Gabriel Delafosse (16 April 1796 – 13 October 1878) was a French mineralogy, mineralogist who worked at the National Museum of Natural History, France, Natural History Museum in Paris and for sometime at the University of Paris. He contributed t ...

** 1876 to 1892:

Alfred Des Cloizeaux Alfred Louis Olivier Legrand Des Cloizeaux (17 October 18176 May 1897) was a French mineralogist. Des Cloizeaux was born at Beauvais, in the department of Oise. He studied with Jean-Baptiste Biot at the Collège de France. He became professor of ...

** 1893 to 1936:

Alfred Lacroix Antoine François Alfred Lacroix (4 February 186312 March 1948) was a French mineralogist and geologist. He was born in Mâcon, Saône-et-Loire. Education Lacroix completed a D. s Sc. in Paris in 1889, as student of Ferdinand André Fouqué. F ...

** 1937 to 1967: Jean Orcel ** 1968 to 1980: Jacques Fabriès ** 1980 to 2001: not assigned * Geology ** 1793 to 1819:

Barthélemy Faujas de Saint-Fond Barthélemy Faujas de Saint-Fond (17 May 174118 July 1819) was a French geologist, volcanologist and traveller. Life He was born at Montélimar. He was educated at the Jesuit's College at Lyon and afterwards at Grenoble where he studied law and ...

** 1819 to 1861:

Louis Cordier Pierre Louis Antoine Cordier (31 March 1777 – 30 March 1861)
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** 1861 to 1891: Auguste Daubrée ** 1892 to 1919: Stanislas-Étienne Meunier ** 1920: unknown ** 1921 to 1940: Paul Lemoine ** 1941 to 1962: René Abrard ** 1963 to 1980: Robert Laffitte ** 1980 to 2001: Lucien Leclaire *Physics as Applied to the Natural Sciences ** 1838 to 1877: Antoine-César Becquerel ** 1878 to 1891: Edmond Becquerel ** 1892 to 1908:

Henri Becquerel Antoine Henri Becquerel (; 15 December 1852 – 25 August 1908) was a French engineer, physicist, Nobel laureate, and the first person to discover evidence of radioactivity. For work in this field he, along with Marie Skłodowska-Curie and P ...

** 1909 to 1948:

Jean Becquerel Jean Antoine Edmond Marie Becquerel (5 February 1878 – 4 July 1953) was a French physicist, the son of Antoine-Henri Becquerel. He worked on a range of experimental physics topics including magnetic effects on the optical properties of materials ...

** 1949 to 1977: Yves Le Grand. This chair was then combined with the chair of ''Physical-Chemistry of Biological Adaptation''. *Natural Iconography or the Art of Drawing and Painting all the Things of Nature ** 1793 to 1822

Gérard van Spaendonck Gerard van Spaendonck (22 March 1746 – 11 May 1822) was a Dutch painter. Life Gerard was born in Tilburg, an older brother of Cornelis van Spaendonck (1756–1840), who was also an accomplished artist. In the 1760s he studied with decorative ...

. This chair is then removed.

References

* Jean Dorst (dir.), Muséum national d'histoire naturelle, 253 p., Fernand Nathan, Paris, 1980, * Yves Laissus, Le Muséum national d'histoire naturelle, Gallimard, Paris, 1995 * Stéphane Déligeorges, Alexandre Gady et Françoise Labalette, Le Jardin des Plantes et le Muséum national d'histoire naturelle, Monum, Paris, 2004, 64 p, * Annuaire et sites du Muséum national d'histoire naturelle, 40 p., MNHN, Paris, rééditions décennales. {{DEFAULTSORT:List of Chairs of the Museum national d'histoire naturelle

Museum national d'histoire naturelle The French National Museum of Natural History, known in French as the ' (abbreviation MNHN), is the national natural history museum of France and a ' of higher education part of Sorbonne Universities. The main museum, with four galleries, is loca ...

Museums A museum ( ; plural museums or, rarely, musea) is a building or institution that cares for and displays a collection of artifacts and other objects of artistic, cultural, historical, or scientific importance. Many public museums make these ...