Étienne Rabaud, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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French physician and entomologist
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Place of Birth: Saint-Affrique, Occitania, France
About Étienne Rabaud
- Étienne Antoine Prosper Jules Rabaud (12 September 1868 in Saint-Affrique – 3 September 1956 in Villemade) was a French zoologist, known for his studies of animal behavior. From 1894 he served as an assistant in the laboratory of teratology at the École des Hautes-Études, and in 1898 he obtained doctorates in both medicine and sciences.
- In 1907 he became a maître de conférences at the faculty of sciences in Paris, where he was later named an assistant professor (1920), professor without chair (1921) and a professor of experimental biology (1923).
- From 1910 to 1919 he served as director of the laboratory at Wimereux.In 1904 he was named secretary of the Société d'Anthropologie de Paris.
- Later on in his career, he was appointed president of the Société entomologique de France (1915) and the Société zoologique de France (1921).
- In 1937 he became an officer of the Légion d'honneur.
- Rabaud was a supporter of Lamarckian evolution.
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