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]
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).
Awards and honours
In 1877, botanist Munier-Chalmas published Bornetella is a genus of green algae in the family Dasycladaceae and named in Jean-Baptiste Édouard Bornet's honor.[4]
Bornet was elected a member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences in 1888.
He was awarded the Linnean Medal in 1891.
Bornet was elected an International Honorary Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1893.[5]
Bornet was elected an International Member of the United States National Academy of Sciences in 1901.[6]
He was admitted as a Foreign Member to the United Kingdom's Royal Society in 1910.[7]
Bornet was elected an International Member of the American Philosophical Society in 1911.[8]
See also
References
- ^ International Plant Names Index. Bornet.
- ^ Proceedings of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
- ^ Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1922). . Encyclopædia Britannica (12th ed.). London & New York: The Encyclopædia Britannica Company.
- ^ Guiry, Michael D. (2021). "Bornetella Munier-Chalmas, 1877". WoRMS. World Register of Marine Species. Retrieved 18 November 2021.
- ^ "Jean Baptiste Edouard Bornet". American Academy of Arts & Sciences. 2023-02-09. Retrieved 2023-11-28.
- ^ "Edouard Bornet". www.nasonline.org. Retrieved 2023-11-28.
- ^ "Bornet, Jean Baptiste Edouard: certificate of election to the Royal Society". The Royal Society. Retrieved 21 October 2024.
- ^ "APS Member History". search.amphilsoc.org. Retrieved 2023-11-28.
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