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PROF. PIERRE EMILE DUCLAUX, the well-known chemist and bacteriologist, was born at Aurillac, capital of the Cantal Departement of France, on June 24, 1840. In 1857 he went to Paris, where he was educated at the Lycee Saint Louis. Two years later he passed the entrance examination not only at the Ecole Poly technique but also at the ? cole Normale Superieure, where Pasteur, with whom he became closely associated, was sub-director of scientific studies. In 1862 he became an agrdgi and assisted Pasteur in his investigation of the disease of silkworms which was then prevalent in several departments of France. In 1865 he was appointed professor of chemistry at Tours, from which he was transferred in a similar capacity to Clermont-Ferrand, where he had about a hundred pupils, most of whom were medical students, including Emile Roux, his successor at the Pasteur Institute. From Clermont-Ferrand he went to Lyons, where he remained five years as professor of physics. Finally he settled in Paris in 1878 as professor of physics and meteorology in the Agronomic Institute.
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Emile Duclaux. Nature 145, 965 (1940). https://doi.org/10.1038/145965b0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/145965b0