Chauvin, Rémy (1913-)

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Chauvin, Rémy (1913-)

Director of the Experimental Ethology Laboratory at Bures sur Yvette, France, and noted behaviorist and entomologist. Chauvin was born October 10, 1913, in Toulon, France, and earned a doctorate in 1941 from the Sorbonne. He became the research director of the French Agronomical Research Institute in 1946; two years later he was appointed director of the Experimental Ethology Laboratory. In 1954 he assumed duties as coeditor of the Journal of Insect Physiology. He was named a laureate of the French Academy of Science.

Chauvin wrote on a wide variety of parapsychological subjects but was especially interested in ESP in relation to animals. He wrote many articles that were published under a pseudonym.

Sources:

Berger, Arthur S., and Joyce Berger. The Encyclopedia of Parapsychology and Psychical Research. New York: Paragon House, 1991.

Duvall, Piere [Rémy Chauvin], and E. Montredon [Jean Mayer]. "A PK Experiment with Mice." Journal of Papapsychology 32 (1968): 153.

. "Further Psi Experiments with Mice." Journal of Parapsychology 32 (1968): 260.

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