Jean-Baptiste Édouard Bornet (September 2, 1828, Guérigny – December 18, 1911,

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) was a French botanist.

Life

Bornet studied medicine in Paris, and in 1886 became a member of the French

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. 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. He helped establish the nature of lichens and was the first to find the reproductive process of red algae. In the field of

lichenology Lichenology is the branch of mycology that studies the lichens, symbiotic organisms made up of an intimate symbiotic association of a microscopic alga (or a cyanobacterium) with a filamentous fungus. Study of lichens draws knowledge from several ...

, he wrote ''Recherches sur les gonidies des lichens'' (1873). With

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, he published on

Nostocaceae The Nostocaceae are a family of cyanobacteria that forms filament-shaped colonies enclosed in mucus or a gelatinous sheath. Some genera in this family are found primarily in fresh water (such as ''Nostoc''), while others are found primarily in ...

: ''Revision des Nostocacées héterocystées'' (1886–88).

Awards and honours

In 1877, botanist Munier-Chalmas published '' Bornetella'' is a

genus Genus ( plural genera ) is a taxonomic rank used in the biological classification of living and fossil organisms as well as viruses. In the hierarchy of biological classification, genus comes above species and below family. In binomial nom ...

of green algae in the family

Dasycladaceae The Dasycladaceae is one of the two extant families of green algae of the order Dasycladales. When found in Palaeozoic limestones, they typically indicate depositional depth of less than 5m.See the NCBI The National Center for Biotechnology ...

and named in Jean-Baptiste Édouard Bornet's honor. 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

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in 1910.

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1828 births 1911 deaths 20th-century French botanists People from Nièvre Members of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences Foreign Members of the Royal Society Foreign associates of the National Academy of Sciences Members of the French Academy of Sciences French phycologists 19th-century French botanists Members of the Göttingen Academy of Sciences and Humanities Members of the Royal Society of Sciences in Uppsala {{France-botanist-stub

Life

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