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Marie Maxime Cornu (July 16, 1843, in
Sociétés savantes de France From 1884 to 1901 he was chair of
Cornu, Maxime (1843-1901)
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* ''Études sur la nouvelle maladie de la vigne'', 1875 – Studies on a new disease of the vine.
* ''Études sur le phylloxera vastatrix'', 1878 – Studies on ''Phylloxera vastatrix''.
Psyche- Journal of Entomology, Nervous System and Salivary Glands of Phylloxera
19th-century French botanists French mycologists Scientists from Orléans 1843 births 1901 deaths {{Mycologist-stub
Marie Maxime Cornu (July 16, 1843, in Orléans
Orléans (;"Orleans"
(US) and botanist Botany, also called , plant biology or phytology, is the science of plant life and a branch of biology. A botanist, plant scientist or phytologist is a scientist who specialises in this field. The term "botany" comes from the Ancient Greek wo ...
and (US) and botanist Botany, also called , plant biology or phytology, is the science of plant life and a branch of biology. A botanist, plant scientist or phytologist is a scientist who specialises in this field. The term "botany" comes from the Ancient Greek wo ...
mycologist
Mycology is the branch of biology concerned with the study of fungus, fungi, including their genetics, genetic and biochemistry, biochemical properties, their Taxonomy (biology), taxonomy and ethnomycology, their use to humans, including as a so ...
. He was a younger brother of physicist
A physicist is a scientist who specializes in the field of physics, which encompasses the interactions of matter and energy at all length and time scales in the physical universe.
Physicists generally are interested in the root or ultimate caus ...
Alfred Cornu
Marie Alfred Cornu (; 6 March 1841 – 12 April 1902) was a French physicist. The French generally refer to him as Alfred Cornu.
Life
Cornu was born at Orléans to François Cornu and Sophie Poinsellier. He was educated at the École polytechni ...
(1841-1902).
He studied at the École normale supérieure
École may refer to:
* an elementary school in the French educational stages normally followed by secondary education establishments (collège and lycée)
* École (river), a tributary of the Seine flowing in région Île-de-France
* École, Savoi ...
, and in 1872 received his doctorate in natural sciences. He served as ''aide-naturaliste'' at Museum National d'Histoire Naturelle
The French National Museum of Natural History, known in French as the ' (abbreviation MNHN), is the national natural history museum of France and a ' of higher education part of Sorbonne Universities. The main museum, with four galleries, is loc ...
in Paris, where from 1876 he worked as a lecturer of botany.Marie MaximeSociétés savantes de France From 1884 to 1901 he was chair of
horticulture
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at the museum. In 1897 he was named president of the Société botanique de France
The Société botanique de France (SBF) is a French learned society founded on 23 April 1854. At its inaugural meeting it stated its purpose as "to contribute to the progress of botany and related sciences and to facilitate, by all means at its di ...
.
He is remembered for his research of cryptogams, as well as his investigations involving agents of plant diseases, in particular ''Phylloxera vastatrix
Grape phylloxera is an insect pest of commercial grapevines worldwide, originally native to eastern North America. Grape phylloxera (''Daktulosphaira vitifoliae'' (Fitch 1855) belong to the family Phylloxeridae, within the order Hemiptera, bugs ...
'', a pest that caused extensive damage to French vineyard
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s and negatively affected wine production. In 1896 he circumscribed the botanical genus ''Schoenlandia
''Cyanastrum'' is a genus of plants in the family Tecophilaeaceae, native to tropical Africa. It contains three currently recognized species.
Description
''Cyanastrum'' has a corm that lacks a protective tunic. The leaf and the inflorescence eme ...
'' (family Tecophilaeaceae
Tecophilaeaceae is a family of flowering plants, placed in the order Asparagales of the monocots. It consists of nine genera with a total of 27 species.
The family has only recently been recognized by taxonomists. The APG IV system of 2016 (un ...
).
Selected publications
* ''Monographie des Saprol̩gni̩es'' 1872 РMonograph on Saprolegniaceae.IdRef / SUDOC
See also
*List of Chairs of the Muséum national d'histoire naturelle
The following is a list persons who have held the chairs of the Muséum national d'histoire naturelle. The number of chaired positions, and their subject areas, have evolved since the creation of the original twelve chairs, some being subdivided in ...
References
Psyche- Journal of Entomology, Nervous System and Salivary Glands of Phylloxera
19th-century French botanists French mycologists Scientists from Orléans 1843 births 1901 deaths {{Mycologist-stub