Charles-Philippe Robin

He studied medicine in Paris, and while still a student took a scientific journey with Hermann Lebert to Normandy and the Channel Islands, where they collected specimens for the Musée Orfila.

In 1846 he received his medical doctorate, and at different stages of his career he was a professor of natural history, anatomy, and histology.

He was a member of the Académie Nationale de Médecine (1858) and Academy of Science (1866).

He was the first to describe the species Candida albicans (a diploid fungus), and he contributed new information on the micro-structure of ganglia and of neuroglia.

With Pierre François Olive Rayer, Claude Bernard, and Charles-Édouard Brown-Séquard, he established the Société de biologie (1848).