Jean-Baptiste Édouard Bornet

Jean-Baptiste Édouard Bornet

Jean-Baptiste Édouard Bornet (September 2, 1828 Guérigny – December 18, 1911 Paris} was a French botanist.

Life

Member of the French Académie des sciences, he wrote the Notes algologiques (1847-1880) and the Études phycologiques (1878). He established the nature of lichens and was the first to find the reproductive process of red algae.^[1]

Bornet was elected a member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences in 1888. He was admitted as a Foreign Member to the Royal Society in 1910. ^[2]

References

1.  Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1922). "Bornet, Jean Baptiste Edouard". Encyclopædia Britannica (12th ed.). London & New York.
2. "Library and Archive Catalogue". Royal Society. Retrieved 17 December 2010.
3. "Author Query for 'Bornet'". International Plant Names Index.