- Emmanuel Geoffroy
Emmanuel Geoffroy (1862 December 12,
Saintes –1894) [cite book| year=1904 | title=Catalogue of the Books, Manuscripts, Maps and Drawings in the British Museum (Natural History) | volume=2 (E-K) | pages=655 | url=http://books.google.com/books?id=ieJGAAAAMAAJ] was a Frenchbotanist andexplorer .Geoffroy traveled to
Martinique andFrench Guiana in search of latex-yielding trees, but also studied the region's native plants in the genus "Robinia " after learning that forest Indians of French Guiana used "Robinia" as fish poisons. One in particular, "Robinia" "nicou", which is now considered to be "Lonchocarpus nicou ", was to be the subject of his thesis, _fr. Contribution à l'étude du Robinia NicouAublet au point de vue botanique, chimique et physiologique.cite journal| last=Ambrose | first=Anthony M. | coauthors=Harvey B. Haag | year=1936 | title=Toxicological study of "Derris" | journal=Industrial & Engineering Chemistry | volume=28 | issue=7 | pages= [http://pubs.acs.org/cgi-bin/abstract.cgi/iechad/1936/28/i07/f-pdf/f_ie50319a017.pdf 815] –821 | doi=10.1021/ie50319a017]In a fact to be discovered posthumously, Geoffroy unknowingly discovered
rotenone , which he originally named "nicouline".He died in 1894 as a result of a
parasitic disease . [cite website| title=Useful tropical plants | publisher=ASNOM | url=http://www.asnom.org/en/730_plantes_tropicales_utiles.html | date=2008-01-02 | accessdate=2008-03-16]References
*cite journal| title=Geoffroy (Emmanuel) | journal=Revue de la Saintonge et de l'Aunis | publisher=Société des Archives Historiques de Saintonge et d'Aunis | volume=17 | year=1897 | editor=A. Picard | pages=139–140 | url=http://books.google.com/books?id=w_FLAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA139 fr icon
*cite journal| last=Geoffroy | first=Emmanuel | year=1895 | title=Contribution to the study of "Robinia nicou"Aublet from a botanical, chemical, and physiological point of view ( _fr. Contribution à l'étude du Robinia Nicou Aublet, au point de vue botanique, chimique et physiologique) | journal=Extrait des Annales de L'Institut Colonial de Marseille | volume=2 | pages=1–86
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