Paul Alfred Pételot
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Faculté Mixte de Médecine et de Pharmacie, Saigon
Institute of Agronomic Research, Saigon
Paul Alfred Pételot | |
|---|---|
| Born | 1885 Saint-Max, France |
| Died | 1965 (aged 79–80) |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Botany, Entomology |
| Institutions | Nancy-Université Faculté Mixte de Médecine et de Pharmacie, Saigon Institute of Agronomic Research, Saigon |
| Author abbrev. (botany) | Pételot |
Paul Alfred Pételot (1885–1965)[1] was a French botanist and entomologist, whose primary scholarly focus was on medicinal plants in Southeast Asia.[2] Some sources list his date of death as 1940,[2] but several herbaria specimens are recorded as being collected by him up until 1944 including Carex kucyniakii (1944),[3] Teijsmanniodendron peteloti (1941), Amalocalyx microlobus (1941), Amalocalyx microlobus (1942), Trichosanthes kerrii (1944) and Siraitia siamensis (1944).[4] In addition, he continued to author publications through the 1950s, though it is possible these are posthumous.[5][6]
Pételot was born in Saint-Max, France in 1885. His first professional posting was in 1908 as a member of the botany faculty at Nancy-Université. He then worked in Brazil and St. Petersburg, Russia before returning to France. In 1919 he was working in the cryptogamy department of the French National Museum of Natural History (Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle) and had been accepted as a member of the French Society of Plant Pathology (Société de Pathologie végétale de France) and the Botanical Society of France (Societe Botanique de France). He then moved to Southeast Asia and in 1922 joined the entomological station of Cho-Gank (Tonkin) and became a professor at the Hanoi School of Agriculture.[7] He moved to Saigon to become a lecturer at the Mixed Faculty of Medicine and Pharmacy (Faculté Mixte de Médecine et de Pharmacie) and then led the botanical division of the Scientific and Technical Research Center (Centre de Recherches Scientifiques et Techniques). He was elected as a laureate of the French Academy of Sciences (Académie des sciences).[2]
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