Marcel Locquin, born May 6, 1922, in
Lyon, France
Lyon,, ; Occitan: ''Lion'', hist. ''Lionés'' also spelled in English as Lyons, is the third-largest city and second-largest metropolitan area of France. It is located at the confluence of the rivers Rhône and Saône, to the northwest of th ...
, died March 18, 2009, was a French
mycologist
Mycology is the branch of biology concerned with the study of fungus, fungi, including their genetics, genetic and biochemistry, biochemical properties, their Taxonomy (biology), taxonomy and ethnomycology, their use to humans, including as a so ...
.
Locquin rose to eminence in the field of mycology over several years of work with a number of
Nobel Prize winners. He himself has won numerous awards. He has worked as consultant for many international organizations. He has filed many patents in
light and
electron microscopy
An electron microscope is a microscope that uses a beam of accelerated electrons as a source of illumination. As the wavelength of an electron can be up to 100,000 times shorter than that of visible light photons, electron microscopes have a hi ...
.
Authorship
Locquin was a prolific writer. He authored 60 books. He published well over 350 articles, which dealt mostly on areas like biophysical techniques,
biomathematics,
cytochemistry, light and electron microscopy, mycology,
taxonomy, smells, colors, origin of languages, transdisciplinary methods, computers and artificial intelligence, and sociology.
See also
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:Taxa named by Marcel Locquin
References
1922 births
2009 deaths
Botanists with author abbreviations
French mycologists
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