Career: |
1802 studied medicine, University of Paris; 1806 M.D., same institution; 1808 military surgeon to the king of Spain, Joseph Bonaparte, and became head of the hospital at Burgos; fell sick with typhus and recovered in private house near Château-Renault; 1810 private scholar in Paris; 1831 member Academy of Science, Paris; discovered the phenomenon of endosmosis and was one of the first watching the mechanism of cell reproduction by segmentation. |