Jean-Baptiste Édouard Bornet

Jean-Baptiste Édouard Bornet (September 2, 1828, Guérigny – December 18, 1911, Paris) was a French botanist. The standard author abbreviation Bornet is used to indicate this person as the author when citing a botanical name.[1]

Jean-Baptiste Édouard Bornet

Life

Bornet 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.[2] He helped establish the nature of lichens and was the first to find the reproductive process of red algae.[3] 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).

Awrds and honours

Bornet was elected a member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences in 1888.

He was awarded the Linnean Medal in 1891.

He was admitted as a Foreign Member to the United Kingdom's Royal Society in 1910. [4]

References
  1. IPNI.  Bornet.
  2. Proceedings of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
  3. Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1922). "Bornet, Jean Baptiste Edouard" . Encyclopædia Britannica (12th ed.). London & New York: The Encyclopædia Britannica Company.
  4. "Library and Archive Catalogue". Royal Society. Retrieved 17 December 2010.
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