Émile Dottrens (21 July 1900 – 29 September 1990) was a

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zoologist and nature conservationist. He became a scientific assistant for zoology at the

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in 1942 and was the director of that museum from 1953 to 1969. He wrote several articles about the Swiss freshwater fish species from the genus ''

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''. He has worked for the

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, for the Swiss nature conservation organisation Pro Natura and at the

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. He was the president of the

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(CIPRA) from 1960 to 1968. In addition he was a member of the Swiss Academy of Sciences and the Société de Physique et d'Histoire Naturelle de Genève.

Publications

*Emile Dottrens (editor): ''Le grand livre de la pêche et des poissons''. 2 volumes, 1952 *Emile Dottrens: ''Batraciens et Reptiles d'Europe'', 1963 *Emile Dottrens: ''Sur le Lavaret du lac du Bourget'' Arch, Si. 3,. fasc. 3, 1950 (scientific article) * * *

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Short Biography in German
Swiss conservationists 1900 births 1990 deaths 20th-century Swiss zoologists {{Zoologist-stub