Yves Delage
Yves Delage (Station biologique de Roscoff)
Born13 May 1854
Avignon
Died7 October 1920(1920-10-07) (aged 66)
Sceaux
NationalityFrench
Scientific career
Fieldszoology

Yves Delage (13 May 1854 – 7 October 1920) was a French zoologist known for his work into invertebrate physiology and anatomy. He also discovered the function of the semicircular canals in the inner ear. He is also famous for noting and preparing a speech on the Turin Shroud, arguing in favour of its authenticity. Delage estimated the probability that the image on the shroud was not caused by the body of Jesus Christ as 1 in 10 billion.[1]

Life

He was born in Avignon on 13 May 1854.[2] He became the director of the Station Biologique de Roscoff in 1901. From 1902 he was Professor of Zoology at the Sorbonne University in Paris. Delage performed influential experiments on the fertilization of sea urchin egg.[3] He was elected an International Member of the American Philosophical Society in 1905.[4]

Delage was a critic of Darwinism. He argued for a version of neo-Lamarckism.[5][6]

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Notes

  1. ^ Resch, Andreas (2005): Das Antlitz Christi, p. 12.
  2. ^ "Former Fellows of The Royal Society of Edinburgh 1783–2002: Biographical Index Part One" (PDF). Royal Society of Edinburgh. July 2006. Retrieved 29 November 2016.
  3. ^ Thomson, J. A. (1900). Experimental Study of Fertilisation. Nature 61: 551–552.
  4. ^ "APS Member History". search.amphilsoc.org. Retrieved 24 January 2024.
  5. ^ Bowler, Peter J. (1992). The Eclipse of Darwinism: Anti-Darwinian Evolution Theories in the Decades Around 1900. Johns Hopkins University Press. p. 110. ISBN 978-0801843914.
  6. ^ Loison, Laurent. (2006). Yves Delage (1854-1920) et l’hétérogénéité du néolamarckisme français. Bulletin d’Histoire et d’Épistémologie des Sciences de la Vie 13: 143-67.

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