Gustave Adolphe Thuret
1817–75
French botanist. Lawyer and attaché in Constantinople, 1840. Gave up his diplomatic career to devote himself to botanical research. Published a number of papers on the seaweed genus Fucus. Resided in Cherbourg, 1852–6, and later at Cap d’Antibes on the Mediterranean in order to carry out research on living algae.
Source
DSB.
Bibliography
DSB: Dictionary of scientific biography. Edited by Charles Coulston Gillispie and Frederic L. Holmes. 18 vols. including index and supplements. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons. 1970–90.
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