Jean Paul Vuillemin, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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French mycologist
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Place of Birth: Docelles, Grand Est, France
About Jean Paul Vuillemin
- Jean Paul Vuillemin (13 February 1861 – 25 September 1932 in Malzéville) was a French mycologist born in Docelles. He studied at the University of Nancy, earning his medical doctorate in 1884.
- In 1892 he obtained his doctorate in sciences at the Sorbonne, and from 1895 to 1932 he was a professor of natural history at the medical faculty in Nancy.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 pyocyanin.In 1901 he transferred the yeast-like fungus that was named Saccharomyces hominis by Otto Busse and Saccharomyces neoformans by Francesco Sanfelice to the genus Cryptococcus due to its absence of ascospores.
- The French Academy of Sciences awarded him the Prix Montagne for 1902.
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