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Nov 01, 1853 Nantes, Pays de la Loire, France Died on 08 Mar 1939 (aged 85)
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About Stéphane Leduc
- Stéphane Leduc (1 November 1853 – 8 March 1939) was a French biologist who sought to contribute to understanding of the chemical and physical mechanisms of life.
- He was a scientist in the fledgling field of synthetic biology, particularly in relation to diffusion and osmosis.
- He was a professor at the École de Médecine de Nantes and worked on osmotic crystallisation and the physiological effects of electric current.
- He was an Officier de la Légion d'honneur. Leduc believed that it is necessary to appreciate biological processes from a physical perspective and constructed models from physics and chemistry to try to explain development and growth; these would typically involve ingenious combinations of chemicals to produce systems which mimicked the appearance of living processes such as karyokinesis and "remarkable fungus-like forms".
- He "[repudiated] extra-physical forces in the phenomena of life".
- According to Keller, these models were largely unsuccessful, "not just because of the conspicuous artificiality of his osmotic growths".
- Leduc sought to synthesise life "by directing the physical forces which are its cause" (in his own words).
