Lucien Chopard, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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French entomologist
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Place of Birth: 3rd arrondissement of Paris, ÃŽle-de-France, France
About 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 et le développement des derniers segments abdominaux chez les orthoptères.
- After being named a correspondent of the Muséum national d'histoire naturelle in 1919 he entered that institution in 1931 working in the laboratoire d’entomologie where he was in charge of the vivarium.
- He became sous directeur in 1936, then professor in 1951.
- He retired in 1955.
- Chopard was a specialist in Orthoptera.
- He worked on Mantidae collected by Charles A.
- Alluaud (1861–1949) and René Gabriel Jeannel (1879–1965) on their East Africa expedition (1911–1912). He became a Member of the Société entomologique de France in 1901 and was distinguished by being made secrétaire général honoraire in 1950.
- He translated into French the work of Vincent Brian Wigglesworth (1899–1994), Physiologie des insectes (Dunond, Paris, 1959).
- In 1931 he was president of the Société zoologique de France.
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