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May 19, 1880 7th arrondissement of Paris, Île de France, France Died on 17 Jan 1931 (aged 50)
French botanist
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About René Viguier
- René Viguier (19 May 1880, in Paris – 17 January 1931, in Caen) was a French botanist known for his investigations of plants within the family Araliaceae.He worked as a préparateur at the Muséum national d'histoire naturelle with Philippe Édouard Léon Van Tieghem, afterwards serving as maître de conférences at the Sorbonne.
- In 1912 he collected botanical specimens in Madagascar with Jean-Henri Humbert.
- From 1919 to 1931 he was a professor of botany at the University of Caen as well as director of city's botanical garden.He was a member of the Société botanique de France (from 1904), the Société linnéenne de Lyon (from 1921) and the Société linnéenne de Normandie (from 1919).
- In 1927 he founded the Archives de botanique.The French Academy of Sciences awarded him the Prix de Coincy for 1909.
- The grass genus Viguierella was named in his honor by Aimée Antoinette Camus (1926).
- Taxa with the specific epithet of viguieri are also named after him, an example being the grass species Cephalostachyum viguieri.
