Jean Paul Vuillemin (13 February 1861 – 25 September 1932 in

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) was a French

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born in

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. He studied at the

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, earning his medical doctorate in 1884. In 1892 he obtained his doctorate in sciences at the

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, and from 1895 to 1932 he was a professor of natural history at the medical faculty in Nancy.BHL
Taxonomic literature : a selective guide to botanical publications He described the genera '' Spinalia'' and '' Zygorhynchus''. The mushroom genus '' Vuilleminia'' ( Maire) is named after him. In 1889 he employed the term "antibiotic" when describing the substance

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. In 1901 he transferred the yeast-like fungus that was named ''Saccharomyces hominis'' by

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and ''Saccharomyces neoformans'' by Francesco Sanfelice to the genus ''

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'' due to its absence of

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s. The

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awarded him the Prix Montagne for 1902. In 1912 Vuillemin created the genus ''

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'' to honor Jean Beauverie for his work the previous year on the

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- '' B. bassiana'' - transferring it from '' Botrytis''.

Selected works

* ''Sur les homologies des mousses'', 1886 – On

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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

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References

* 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 {{DEFAULTSORT:Vuillemin, Jean Paul French mycologists 1861 births 1932 deaths People from Vosges (department) Nancy-Université alumni University of Lorraine alumni University of Lorraine faculty