Alphonse Louis Pierre Pyrame de Candolle

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Alphonse Louis Pierre Pyrame de Candolle (Paris October 28, 1806 – Geneva April 4, 1893), was a French-Swiss botanist, the son of the Swiss botanist A. P. de Candolle.

He first devoted himself to the study of law, but gradually drifted to botany and finally succeeded to his father's chair at the University of Geneva. He published a number of botanical works, including continuations of the Prodromus in collaboration with his son, Anne Casimir Pyrame de Candolle. Among his other contributions is the creation of the first Code of Botanical Nomenclature (adopted by the International Botanical Congress in 1867), being the prototype of the currnet ICBN. He was awarded the Linnean Medal of the Linnean Society of London in 1889.

[edit] Works

• Candolle, Alphonse de. Lois de la nomenclature botanique adoptées par le Congrès international de botanique tenu à Paris en août 1867... Genève et Bale: H. Georg; Paris: J.-B. Baillière et fils, 1867. 64 p.

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• View digitized titles by Candolle in Botanicus.org

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This article incorporates text from the Encyclopædia Britannica Eleventh Edition, a publication now in the public domain.