Alois Humbert

Alois Humbert (22 September 1829, Geneva – 14 May 1887) was a Swiss naturalist and paleontologist who specialized in the study of myriapods.

In 1852 he began work as a curator at the Musée d'histoire naturelle in Geneva, where he worked closely with François Jules Pictet. He was involved in scientific missions to Ceylon and to Syria / Lebanon, from which, he collected a large number of specimens for the museum. While in the Middle East, he made important discoveries of fossil fish.[1]

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