Louis Michel François Doyère (born 28 January 1811 in Saint-Michel-des-Essartiers, Calvados; died 12 July 1863 in Bastia, Corsica) was a French zoologist and agronomist.
In 1838, he translated into French the 1836 book Geology and Mineralogy considered with reference to Natural Theology by William Buckland.
[citation needed] In 1842, he defended his thesis at the Faculty of Sciences of Paris on the biology of tardigrades, including their ability to survive complete desiccation.
In the historian of science Hartmut Greven's words, "The unanimous opinion of all later researchers is that Doyère's dissertation Memoire sur les Tardigrades is an indisputable milestone in tardigradology".
From 1850 to 1852, he held the chair of zoology applied to agriculture at the Agronomic Institute of Versailles;[citation needed] then that of natural history at the École centrale des arts et manufactures.