Francis Elliott Drouet (1907–1982) was an American phycologist, who collected specimens in the United States, Brazil, Mexico, and Panama.
From 1935 to 1936 he was employed as a botanist in a one-year fish culture programme sponsored by the Brazilian government.
[3] He was also a member of the first team of biologists sent to New Mexico to determine the possible effects of atomic radiation on the biota around Los Alamos.
[2]At the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, he was a research fellow and curator of the algal herbarium from 1961 until his retirement in 1975.
[4] His cyanophyte collection is curated in the botany department of the Smithsonian Institution.