Birthdate: August 26, 1800
Sun Sign: Virgo
Birthplace: Rouen, France
Died: December 6, 1872
Félix-Archimède Pouchet was a French naturalist who was known for his advocacy of spontaneous generation and opposition to Louis Pasteur’s germ theory. He served as the director of the Rouen Jardin des Plantes and later became a professor at the School of Medicine at the University of Rouen. Pouchet’s major scientific work, Hétérogénie, was published in 1859, and he also authored a layperson’s encyclopedia titled The Universe in 1870. He made significant contributions to the study of cytology physiology and was elected as a member of the American Philosophical Society in 1848.
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