Marcel Locquin, born May 6, 1922, in
Lyon, France, died March 18, 2009, was a French
mycologist.
Locquin rose to eminence in the field of mycology over several years of work with a number of
Nobel Prize
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winners. He himself has won numerous awards. He has worked as consultant for many international organizations. He has filed many patents in
light
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and
electron microscopy.
Authorship
Locquin was a prolific writer. He authored 60 books. He published well over 350 articles, which dealt mostly on areas like biophysical techniques,
biomathematics
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,
cytochemistry
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, light and electron microscopy, mycology,
taxonomy
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, smells, colors, origin of languages, transdisciplinary methods, computers and artificial intelligence, and sociology.
See also
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:Taxa named by Marcel Locquin
References
1922 births
2009 deaths
Botanists with author abbreviations
French mycologists
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