Charles-Philippe Robin

Charles-Philippe Robin (4 June 1821–5 October 1885) was a French anatomist, biologist, and histologist who was born in Jasseron, département Ain.

He studied medicine in Paris, and while still a student took a scientific journey with Hermann Lebert to Normandy and the Channel Islands, where they collected specimens for the Musée Orfila. In 1846 he received his medical doctorate, and at different stages of his career he was a professor of natural history, anatomy, and histology. He was a member of the Académie Nationale de Médecine (1858) and Academy of Science (1866). In 1873 he was appointed director of the marine zoology laboratory at Concarneau.

Robin's contributions to medical science were many and varied. He was a pioneer in the study of microscopic and cellular biology, and along with Pierre François Olive Rayer, Claude Bernard, and Charles-Édouard Brown-Séquard, he established the Société de biologie in 1848. He was the first physician to describe the species Candida albicans (a diploid fungus), and he discovered the role of osteoclasts in bone formation. He also contributed new information on the structure of glial cells and the electrical organs of Rajidae (electric skates).

Robin was a prolific writer, creating over 300 publications during his lifetime. With Émile Littré he published a revision of Pierre-Hubert Nysten’s Dictionnaire de médecine, de chirurgie, etc. The eponymous Virchow-Robin spaces are named after him and pathologist Rudolf Virchow. Virchow-Robin spaces are lymphatic spaces between the vessels of the central nervous system.

The standard author abbreviation C.P.Robin is used to indicate this individual as the author when citing a botanical name.^[1]

Selected writings

• Tableaux d’anatomie. Paris, 1851.
• Anatomie microscopique. 1868.
• Programme du cours d’histologie. 1870.
• Traité du microscope, son mode d’emploi, son application, 1871.
• Anatomie et physiologie cellulaire, animale et végétale. Paris, 1873.
• Mémoire sur le développement embryogénique des hirudinées. 1874.
• L’instruction et l’éducation. 1877.
• Nouveau dictionnaire abrége de médecine. Paris, 1886

References

• Charles-Philippe Robin @ Who Named It

1. ^ "Author Query". International Plant Names Index. http://www.ipni.org/ipni/authorsearchpage.do. 

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Name	Robin, Charles-Philippe
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Date of birth	1821
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Date of death	1885
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