Nicolas-Philibert Adelon

Life & Legacy

Nicolas-Philibert Adelon (20 August 1782, Dijon – 19 July 1862, Paris) was a French medical doctor and physiologist.
He studied medicine in Paris, receiving his doctorate in 1809 with the thesis "Dissertation sur les fonctions de la peau". In 1823 he obtained his agrégation for physiology, and in 1826 succeeded Antoine-Athanase Royer-Collard as chair of forensic medicine at the University of Paris, a position he maintained up until 1861.
In 1821 he became a member of the Académie nationale de médecine, being elected as its president in 1831. He was also a founding member of the Société anatomique de Paris (1803).