Louis Joubin
Louis Marie Adolphe Olivier Édouard Joubin (27 January 1861 in Épinal – 24 April 1935) was a professor at the Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle in Paris. He published works on nemerteans, chaetognatha, cephalopods, and other molluscs.[1]
He served as an assistant to Henri de Lacaze-Duthiers, subsequently becoming director of the laboratories at Banyuls-sur-Mer (1882) and Roscoff (1884). Later, he became an instructor at the University of Rennes,[2] and in 1903 succeeded Edmond Perrier as chaire des mollusques, des vers et des zoophytes at the Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle (from 1917 onward his title was chaire des mollusques).[3] In 1906 he was chosen by Albert I, Prince of Monaco to be in charge of instruction at the Institut océanographique.[2]
In 1905 he was named president of the Société zoologique de France. In 1920 he became a member of the Académie des Sciences.[2]
Joubin's Squid (Joubiniteuthis portieri) is named for him,[4] as is Scolymastra joubini, an hexactinellid sponge whose lifespan is purportedly 10,000 years.[5]
Written works
- Les Némertiens, 1894 - Nemerteans.
- Contribution a`l'etude des Cephalopodes de l'Atlantique Nord, 1895 - Contributions to the study of cephalopods of the North Atlantic.
- Expedition antarctique francaise (1903-1905) : commandee par le dr. Jean Charcot. Science naturelles: documents scientifiques. - French Antarctic Expedition (1903–05) : commanded by Jean Baptiste Charcot, Natural science: scientific documents of the expedition.
- Deuxieme expedition antarctique francaise (1908-1910) / Sciences naturelles: documents scientifiques. - Second French Antarctic Expedition (1908–10) / Natural sciences: scientific documents of the expedition.
- La vie dans les océans, 1912 - Life in the oceans.
- Chétognathes provenant des campagnes des yachts Hirondelle et Princesse-Alice, 1885-1910 (with Louis Germain), 1916 - Chaetognatha from campaigns of the yachts Hirondelle and Princesse-Alice, 1885-1910.
- Le fond de la mer, 1920 - The bottom of the sea.
- Les metamorphoses des animaux marins, 1926 - Metamorphosis of marine animals.
- Elements de biologie marine, 1928 - Elements of marine biology.
- Faune ichthyologique de l'Atlantique nord, 1929 - Ichthyological fauna of the North Atlantic.
- "Cephalopods from the scientific expeditions of Prince Albert I of Monaco"; published in 1995 into English.[6][7]
