Jean Pierre Bernard Édouard Filhol (7 October 1814–25 June 1883) was a French scientist. In 1854, Édouard Filhol was appointed Professor of

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at the

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, a position he held until 1882. Later, in 1865, he became director of the

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. It was the first museum in the world to open a gallery of

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thanks to the collaboration of

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Jean-Baptiste Noulet Jean-Baptiste Noulet (1 May 1802 – 24 May 1890) was a French scientist and naturalist who helped to prove the archæological existence of humans and was one of the pioneers of the scientific discipline of prehistoric archaeology. He was born in V ...

and

Eugène Trutat Eugène Trutat (25 August 1840 – 6 August 1910) was a French naturalist, mountaineer, pyreneist, geologist and photographer, who was curator of the Museum of Toulouse. He began taking photographs in 1859, and produced almost 15,000 over the c ...

. In the same year, he became director of the School of Medicine and Pharmacy at the University of Toulouse.

Jean-Baptiste Senderens Jean-Baptiste Senderens (27 January 1856 – 26 September 1937) was a French priest and chemist. He was one of the pioneers of catalytic chemistry, and a co-discoverer of catalytic hydrogenation, a process used commercially to make margarine. Lif ...

studied under Édouard Filhol, professor of Chemistry at the Faculty of Sciences in Toulouse. After ten years of collaboration with Filhol, he began a collaboration of equal length with Paul Sabatier, Filhol's successor. From 1867 to 1870, Édouard Filhol was Mayor of Toulouse. He was the father of the naturalist

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 ...

(1843–1902)

References

*John M. Burney, 1988 ''Toulouse et son université. Facultés et étudiants dans la France provinciale du XIXe siècle, par John M. Burney, aux Presses universitaires du Mirail et Éditions du CNRS''

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* French prehistorians 19th-century French chemists 1814 births 1883 deaths {{France-archaeologist-stub