Monod, Theodore Andre

▪ 2001

      French naturalist (b. April 9, 1902, Rouen, France—d. Nov. 21/22?, 2000, Versailles, France), was a leading authority on the Sahara desert. By his own account, from 1922 to 1994 Monod traveled more than 5,200 km (3,230 mi) through the Sahara, either on foot or by camel, and collected some 20,000 plant and animal specimens. He worked for the National Museum of Natural History in Paris, first as an assistant (1922–42), then as a professor (1942–74). He also wrote many books, including Les Déserts (1973), L'Émeraude des Garamantes: Souvenirs d'un saharien (1984), and Mémoires d'un naturaliste voyageur (1990). Monod was elected to the French Academy of Sciences in 1963.

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