Jean-Baptiste Édouard Bornet
Jean-Baptiste Édouard Bornet (September 2, 1828, Guérigny – December 18, 1911, Paris) was a French botanist.
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Life
He studied medicine in Paris, and in 1886 became a member of the French Académie des sciences. With Gustave Thuret, he was co-author of Notes algologiques (1876-1880) and the Études phycologiques (1878), both works being published after Thuret's death in 1875.[1] He helped establish the nature of lichens and was the first to find the reproductive process of red algae.[2] In the field of lichenology, he wrote Recherches sur les gonidies des lichens (1873). With Charles Flahault, he published on Nostocaceae: Revision des Nostocacées héterocystées (1886–88).
Bornet was elected a member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences in 1888. He was admitted as a Foreign Member to the United Kingdom's Royal Society in 1910. [3]
References
- Proceedings of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
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Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1922). . Encyclopædia Britannica (12th ed.). London & New York. - "Library and Archive Catalogue". Royal Society. Retrieved 17 December 2010.
- IPNI. Bornet.