Gustave-Adolphe Thuret

Gustave-Adolphe Thuret (born May 23, 1817, Paris, France—died May 10, 1875, Nice) was a French botanist who gave the first accounts of fertilization in the brown algae. After receiving a law degree in 1838, Thuret began to study botany under Joseph Decaisne. He became interested in the history and behavior of the marine algae and in about 1840 described the flagella (whiplike structures) of the spermatozoids (male sex cells) of the green alga Chara. In...