# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/emile-maupas
# Generated: 2026-08-13T11:07:45.657Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/emile-maupas"
name: "Émile Maupas"
slug: "emile-maupas"
description: "François Émile Maupas was a French librarian, protozoologist, cytologist, and botanist. Maupas contributed to ideas on the life cycle and reproduction of the ciliates. He founded the idea, known as the Maupasian life cycle, that some protists had a definite death following sexual reproduction, contrary to contemporary ideas on protists being immortal. He also identified the existence of mating types in ciliates. He developed culture techniques for a number of organisms and described the nematode Caenorhabditis elegans, which has since become a widely used model organism in biological studies."
tagline: "French zoologist, botanist, and librarian (1842–1916)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Maupas_medal.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "France"
  isoCode: "FR"
category:
  name: "Scientists"
  slug: "scientists"
profileType:
  name: "Scientist"
  slug: "scientist"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1842-07-02"
deathDate: "1916-10-18"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           37.91
  momentum:             3.580246913580247
  historical:           4.60396
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     30
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A7%D9%85%D9%8A%D9%84_%D9%85%D8%A7%D9%88%D9%BE%D8%A7%D8%B3"
    title: "اميل ماوپاس"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%89mile_Maupas"
    title: "Émile Maupas"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%89mile_Maupas"
    title: "Émile Maupas"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%89mile_Maupas"
    title: "Émile Maupas"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://species.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%89mile_Fran%C3%A7ois_Maupas"
    title: "Émile François Maupas"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3588656"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump