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Geneviève Meurgues
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Geneviève Meurgues, born February 4, 1931, is a French explorer, museologist, and public speaker. She is a professor at the National Museum of Natural History, known for her conservation work on an ancient Roman boat found in Marseille.

Early life
Meurgues was born in Paris to a family from Saint-Germain-de-Modéon. Before 1962, she worked in a medical laboratory while pursuing studies at the Conservatoire National des Arts et Métiers (CNAM) in chemistry and biochemistry. She graduated in 1967 with a thesis on nucleic acids in the mushroom Aspergillus niger.

Career
In 1962, Roger Heim charged her with instituting a laboratory at the National Museum of Natural History dedicated to developing new methods of conservation and presentation, that she organized and directed while preparing a diplôme d'études approfondies in zoology, focusing on bluebottle flies, which she obtained in 1973.

Once a ''maître-assistant" at the Museum, she organized numerous temporary exhibits on plant and animal life.