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When was Claude Bernard elected to the French Academy of Sciences?
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Claude Bernard
Claude Bernard, detail of a lithograph by A. Laemlein, 1858.
Claude Bernard was elected to the Academy of Sciences in 1854.1
It is important to distinguish this from his election to the French Academy, a separate institution, which occurred later in 1868.1