Joseph-Philippe-François Deleuze (French: [dəløz]}; 12 April 1753, Sisteron – 29 October 1835, Paris) was a French naturalist.
Biography J. P. F. Deleuze studied in Paris and became an assistant naturalist at the National Museum of Natural History in 1795. He collaborated with Antoine Laurent de Jussieu (1748-1836). An assistant naturalist and librarian of the Natural History Museum, he is best known for being a proponent of the theory of animal magnetism and suggested that the French Academy of Sciences study it. Joseph Philippe François Deleuze was a resident member of the Société des observateurs de l'homme. In 1817, Deleuze was elected a member of the American Philosophical Society.
Honours The genus Leuzea was dedicated to Deleuze by Swiss botanist Augustin Pyrame de Candolle. The standard author abbreviation Deleuze is used to indicate this person as the author when citing a botanical name.
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Joseph-Philippe-François Deleuze on Data.bnf.fr