| Authorised form of name | Bornet; Jean Baptiste Edouard (1828 - 1911); French botanist |
| Dates | 1828 - 1911 |
| Nationality | French |
| Place of birth | Guérigny, Nièvre, France, Europe |
| Date of birth | 02 September 1828 |
| Place of death | Paris, Île-de-France, France, Europe |
| Date of death | 18/12/1911 |
| Occupation | Botanist |
| Research field | Spermatophytes |
| Fungi and Lichens |
| Algae |
| Activity | Education: Studied medicine in Paris; member of French Académie des sciences (1886)
Career: Co-auhored, with Gustave Thuret, Notes algologiques (1876-1880) and the Études phycologiques (1878); wrote Recherches sur les gonidies des lichens (1873); became president of the Société botanique de France in (1882); published, with Charles Flahault, on Nostocaceae: Revision des Nostocacées héterocystées (1886–88).
Memberships:
Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences (1888)
International Honorary Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (1893)
International Member of the United States National Academy of Sciences (1901)
International Member of the American Philosophical Society (1911)
Awards and Medals:
Linnean Medal (1891) |
| Membership category | Foreign Member |
| Date of election | 30/06/1910 |
| Age at election | 82 |
| Proposer | Arch Geikie; A B Kempe; J Rose Bradford; William Crookes; H B Baker; W H Perkin; D Prain; A E Shipley; Edward B Poulton; R A Sampson; H M Macdonald; Horace Lamb; P A MacMahon; A Strahan; Charles J Martin; Walter H Gaskell |
| Other Royal Society activity | 0 |
| PublishedWorks | RCN 16192 |
| OtherInfo | Helped establish the nature of lichens and was the first to find the reproductive process of red algae.
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.
Taxa named by Jean-Baptiste Édouard Bornet: Gomontia; Lithopythium; Nostoc parmelioides; Ostreobium; Spilonema; Wollea; Zosterocarpus; Zygomitus |
| Source | Sources:
Bulloch's Roll; Harvard University Herbaria and Libraries Index of Botanists [URL:https://kiki.huh.harvard.edu/databases/botanist_search.php?id=1124, last accessed: 11/01/2024]; World Register of Marine Species, Taxon Details: Bornetella Munier-Chalmas, 1877 [URL: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=204877, last accessed: 11/01/2024] |
| Code | NA4873 |
Archives associated with this Fellow
| RefNo | Title | Date |
| EC/1910/17 | Bornet, Jean Baptiste Edouard: certificate of election to the Royal Society | |
| NLB/42/649 | Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison to "Nature" | July 1910 |