Henri Dutrochet
René Joachim Henri Dutrochet (14 November 1776 – 4 February 1847) was a French physician, botanist and physiologist.[citation needed] In 1802 he began to study medicine at Paris, and was subsequently appointed chief physician to the hospital at Burgos, in Spain.[1] His scientific publications were numerous, and covered a wide field, but his most noteworthy work was embryological.His Recherches sur l'accroissement et la reproduction des végétaux, published in the Mémoires du museum d'histoire naturelle for 1821, procured him in that year the French Academy's prize for experimental physiology.His early researches into the voice introduced the first modern concept of vocal cord movement.