Félix Archimède Pouchet

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birth_date = August 26, 1800
birth_place = Rouen
death_date = December 6 1872
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nationality = France
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field = Natural history
work_institutions = Rouen Museum of Natural History
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known_for = spontaneous generation
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Félix-Archimède Pouchet (August 26, 1800, in Rouen, France to December 6 1872) was a French naturalist and a leading proponent of spontaneous generation of life from from non-living materials, and as such an opponent of Louis Pasteur’s germ theory [cite journal
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year=1979|month=Jul.
title=Experimental method and spontaneous generation: the controversy between Pasteur and Pouchet, 1859--64
journal=Journal of the history of medicine and allied sciences
volume=34
issue=3
pages=273-92
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From 1828 he was director of the Rouen Museum of Natural History and the Rouen Jardin des Plantes. Later, in 1838, he became professor at the School of Medicine at Rouen. His major scientific work "Hétérogénie" was published in 1859. He also wrote a layperson's encyclopedia The Universe, published in 1870, which gives an overview of the sciences, but in which Pouchet ridicules Louis Pasteur's theories (calling them panspermism) and atomic theory.

In 1847 Felix-Archimede Pouchet effectively launched the study of the physiology of cytology [cite journal
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title=Highlights from the history of hormonal cytology
journal=Hormones (Athens)
volume=7
issue=2
pages=184-6
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References

* [http://www.britannica.com/eb/article-9061090/Felix-Archimede-Pouchet Brittanica Article]