Jean Paul Vuillemin
Jean Paul Vuillemin (13 February 1861 – 25 September 1932 in Malzéville) was a French mycologist born in Docelles.
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He studied at the University of Nancy, earning his medical doctorate in 1884. In 1892 he obtained his doctorate in sciences at the Sorbonne, and from 1895 to 1932 he was a professor of natural history at the medical faculty in Nancy.[1]
He described the genera Spinalia and Zygorhynchus. The mushroom genus Vuilleminia (Maire) is named after him.[1] In 1889 he employed the term "antibiotic" when describing the substance pyocyanin.[2]
In 1901 he transferred the yeast-like fungus that was named Saccharomyces hominis by Otto Busse and Saccharomyces neoformans by Francesco Sanfelice to the genus Cryptococcus due to its absence of ascospores.[3][4] The French Academy of Sciences awarded him the Prix Montagne for 1902.[5]
Selected works
- Sur les homologies des mousses, 1886 – On homology regarding mosses.
- Les Tubercules radicaux des légumineuses, 1888 – On radical tubercules of legumes.
- Les champignons, 1912 – Fungi.
- Les animaux infectieux, 1929 – Infectious animals.
- Les Champignons parasites et les mycoses de l'homme, 1931 – Parasitic fungi and human mycoses.[6]
References
- BHL Taxonomic literature : a selective guide to botanical publications
- The Handy Biology Answer Book by Patricia Barnes-Svarney, Thomas Svarney
- MedMerits Cryptococcal meningitis Historical note and nomenclature
- The Yeasts, a Taxonomic Study by C. P. Kurtzman, Jack W. Fell
- "Séance du 22 décembre". Le Moniteur scientifique du Doctor Quesneville: 139. February 1903. Archived from the original on 2014-10-21.
- Paul Vuillemin (1861-1932) data.bnf.fr.
- IPNI. Vuill.
- Alexandre Klein, « Jean-Paul Vuillemin (1861-1932) : l’inventeur nancéien du concept d’antibiotique », Le Pays Lorrain, 2012/1, p. 61-66.
- Alexandre Klein, Jean-Paul Vuillemin, inventeur nancéien de l’antibiotique, L'Est Républicain, du 16 Juin 2011