Jean-Baptiste Édouard Bornet
Jean-Baptiste Édouard Bornet (September 2, 1828, Guérigny – December 18, 1911, Paris) was a French botanist. 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. He helped establish the nature of lichens and was the first to find the reproductive process of red algae. 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. 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 Royal Society in 1910.