André Thouin

André Thouin (10 February 1746 – 24 October 1824) was a French botanist. Thouin studied botany under Bernard de Jussieu, and in 1793 attained the chair of horticulture at the Muséum national d'histoire naturelle in Paris. He was a good friend of U.S. President Thomas Jefferson, and the godfather of Jean Baptiste Lamarck's son Andre. The plant genus Thouinia (family Sapindaceae) is named after him. As a taxonomist he described at least 15 new species.

André Thouin

André Thouin (10 February 1746 – 24 October 1824) was a French botanist. Thouin studied botany under Bernard de Jussieu, and in 1793 attained the chair of horticulture at the Muséum national d'histoire naturelle in Paris. He was a good friend of U.S. President Thomas Jefferson, and the godfather of Jean Baptiste Lamarck's son Andre. The plant genus Thouinia (family Sapindaceae) is named after him. As a taxonomist he described at least 15 new species.