Bringing order to the beetle world
Pierre Morvan, a self-taught expert on insects, has made his mark in science by exploring insect populations in a region often out of bounds to professional scientists – the isolated and inaccessible regions of the Himalayas. The region has become as familiar to him as the streets of Paris, where he worked as a taxi driver for over 30 years.
"Thanks to the windfall of the Rolex Award, I was able to collect an abundant amount of material; thousands of insects....Ninety per cent of the museum collections are provided by amateurs like me.”
Winner of a Rolex Award for Enterprise in 1987, Morvan has brought order to a vast and poorly understood family of beetles, the Carabidae – otherwise known as ground beetles (Coleoptera Carabidae).
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The man with 100,000 beetles
In over four decades of study, Pierre Morvan has discovered over 600 species of beetles, inventing a new classification method.
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Mr Pierre Morvan
La Hardouinaie
56910 Karentoir
France
