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Marie Dominique Luizet

French botanist (1852-1930)

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJul 1, 2026
Entity authorityQ5998154 ↗
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Marie Dominique Luizet (1852–1930) was a French botanist and chemist. He was the first to identify several species of Saxifraga.

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Editorial reviewA practical starting point whose main value is the path it opens into stronger specialist and primary sources. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1852, 1930—that can be checked directly. The authority record carries competing date values—1852-01-26, 1851, 1851-01-26—which should remain separate until their references and qualifiers are resolved. The account is most persuasive where Marie, Dominique and Luizet can be independently traced.
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The subject matters to the general reference register because the source frames it as french botanist (1852-1930). Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

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Vocabulary and entity names are the principal evidence signals here, because they determine the precision of every later search. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jul 1, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q5998154. 3 of 3 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 1 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1852 and 1930.

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This entry incorporates text from “Marie Dominique Luizet” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.