Georges Pruvôt

Georges Florentin Pruvôt (11 April 1852, Saint-Amand-Montrond – 15 October 1924, Paris) was a French zoologist.

From 1885 he was a lecturer to the faculty of sciences in Paris, later relocating to Grenoble, where in 1893 he became a professor of zoology.

In 1898 he returned to Paris as chef des travaux de zoologie (chief of zoological research).

[2] In 1900 he was named director of the laboratory at Banyuls-sur-Mer,[3] and two years later, began giving classes in comparative anatomy in Paris.

Also, organisms with the specific epithet of pruvoti are named in his honor.