Geoffroy (surname)
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Geoffroy is a surname. Notable persons with that surname include:
- Jean-Nicolas GeoffroyJean-Nicolas GeoffroyJean-Nicolas Geoffroy was a French harpsichordist and organist. His birthplace is unknown; he died in Perpignan....
(1633–1694), French harpsichordist and organist - Étienne François GeoffroyÉtienne François GeoffroyÉtienne François Geoffroy , French physician and chemist, best known for his 1718 affinity tables. He first contemplated a career as an apothecary, but then decided to practice medicine. He is sometimes known as Geoffroy the Elder.-Biography:He was born in Paris...
(1672–1731), French apothecary and chemist - Claude Joseph GeoffroyClaude Joseph GeoffroyClaude Joseph Geoffroy was the brother of Étienne François Geoffroy.Like his brother, he was an apothecary and chemist. Having a considerable knowledge of botany, he devoted himself especially to the study of the essential oils in plants....
(1685–1752), French apothecary, chemist and botanist; younger brother of Étienne François Geoffroy - Claude François GeoffroyClaude François GeoffroyClaude François Geoffroy was a French chemist. He discovered the chemical element bismuth in 1753. Before this time, bismuth-containing minerals were frequently identified as either lead or tin ores....
(1729–1753), French chemist, discoverer of bismuth - Étienne Louis GeoffroyÉtienne Louis GeoffroyÉtienne Louis Geoffroy was a French entomologist and pharmacist. He was born in Paris and died in Soissons. He followed the binomial nomenclature of Carl von Linné and devoted himself mainly to beetles....
(1725–1810), French entomologist - Julien Louis GeoffroyJulien Louis GeoffroyJulien Louis Geoffroy was a French literary critic.He was born at Rennes, and educated there and at the Collège Louis le Grand in Paris. He took orders and for some time was a mere usher, eventually becoming professor of rhetoric at the Collège des Quatre-Nations. His tragedy, Caton, was accepted...
(1743–1814), French literary critic - Étienne Geoffroy Saint-HilaireÉtienne Geoffroy Saint-HilaireÉtienne Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire was a French naturalist who established the principle of "unity of composition". He was a colleague of Jean-Baptiste Lamarck and expanded and defended Lamarck's evolutionary theories...
(1772–1844), French naturalist - Isidore Geoffroy Saint-HilaireIsidore Geoffroy Saint-HilaireIsidore Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire was a French zoologist and an authority on deviation from normal structure. He coined the term ethology.He was born in Paris, the son of Étienne Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire...
(1805–1861), French zoologist, son of Étienne Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire