Albert Brachet

Albert Auguste Toussaint Brachet (1 January 1869 – 27 December 1930) was a Belgian physician and professor of anatomy and embryology at the Free University of Brussels (Université Libre de Bruxelles, in its incarnation that operated 1834–1969).

He studied medicine in Liège where he took an interest in embryology under Edouard van Beneden.

He received his Doctor of Medicine in 1894 followed, by additional studies at the University of Edinburgh under Sir William Turner and then in Germany under Ernst Gaupp and Gustav Jacob Born.

Brachet moved from the descriptive embryology of his period to experimental approaches which involved experiments such as the removal of specific cells in the embryo to observe the alteration in development.

His students included Pol Gerard, Maurice Herlant and Albert Dalcq [fr].