Person
Cloez, Francois Stanislas (1817 - 1883)
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- Born
- 24 June 1817
Ors, France - Died
- 12 October 1883
Paris, France - Occupation
- Chemist
Summary
Francois Cloez was a French chemist whose interests included the analysis of eucalypt leaves and essential oils. In 1870, Francis Cloez identified the major constituent of eucalyptus oil, now generally known as cineole. Cloez was honoured in 1878 by Ferdinand von Mueller in naming a Eucalypt species Eucalyptus cloeziana.
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Chronology
- 1878
- Taxonomy event - Honoured with Eucalyptus cloeziana F.Muell.
Published resources
Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation Exhibitions
- McCarthy, Gavan; Smith, Ailie; Moje, Christine; Rigby, Rebecca, The Study of Australian Eucalypts, eScholarship Research Centre, 2013, http://www.eoas.info/eucalypts/index.html. Details
Books
- Wrigley, J.; and Fagg, M., Eucalypts: a Celebration (Crows Nest Australia: Allen & Unwin, 2010), 344 pp. Details
Resources
- Wikidata, http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q5423776. Details
- VIAF - Virtual International Authority File, OCLC, https://viaf.org/viaf/19795123. Details
- 'Cloez, Francois Stanislas (18170624-18831012)', Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009, https://nla.gov.au/nla.party-1491608. Details
See also
- Hall, Norman, Botanists of the Eucalypts: short biographies of people who have named eucalypts, whose names have been given to species or who have collected type material (Melbourne: CSIRO, 1978), 101 pp. Details
Christine Moje
Created: 19 June 2012, Last modified: 23 February 2023
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