Vincent Allard

Vincent Allard (18 December 1921 22 January 1994)[1] was a Belgian entomologist.

Born at Braine l'Alleud, south Brussels, Vincent Allard received his medical studies in France where he obtained several degrees from the University of Paris and Institut Pasteur in 1947 and 1948. In 1949 he was in the United States where he studied fungal diseases at the Harvard Medical School. Then he lived in Zaïre where he developed laboratories and was professor of histology general until 1975.

He published several books and many works on Coleoptera. He had a very large collection of beetles, all accurately named.

Books

Works [2]

Here is the complete list of his works:

Entomological terms named after him

List of the taxa described by Vincent Allard

Names revised

References

  1. Jacques Rigout: Vincent Allard (18 décembre 1921 - 22 janvier 1994) Bulletin de la Société Sciences Nat, 81, pp. 3-5.
  2. Bulletin de la Société Sciences Nat: complete list of works published
  3. Bulletin de la Société Sciences Nat, 82; pp.39.
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