Name Noel Bernard | ||
Noël Bernard (* 13 March 1874 in Paris in 17th ; † 16 January 1911 in Saint-Benoît, Vienne) was an important French botanist who died when he was finally overcome with tuberculosis. Noël Bernard was known as the discoverer of Phytoalexins which are antimicrobial and often antioxidative substances synthesized de novo by plants that accumulate rapidly at areas of pathogen infection.
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Life
His father was François Bernard, a wealthy cloth and textiles dealer based in Béziers in southern France, who moved to Paris and died when Bernard was 5. His mother was Marie-Marguerite, who worked as a milliner to fund his studies. Bernard was considered an outstanding student while attending the Lycée Charlemagne later Lycée Condorcet both in Paris, in preparation for entry to the Grandes Ecoles, of which he eventually gained entry to the École Normale Supérieure. Bernard eventually gained a Bachelor of Science with Honours between 1895 and 1897 in Mathematics, Physics, Biology and Geology. Around the same time, he started giving lessons to repay his mothers debts, sometimes to royal families, e.g. Martha, Princess Bibesco, which was ironic as he considered himself an anarchist. In 1989, he prepared for the prestigious Agrégation Des Sciences Naturelles examination for selection of high school teachers. He shared first place with Charles Pérez, the future Professor of Zoology.
Career
Noël Bernard, presented a thesis in the degree of biology at the Faculty of Sciences of Paris in 1901, entitled: Studies on tuberization (French:Studies on tuberization).
He taught botany at the University of Poitiers. He worked primarily on the mycorrhizae in the role of orchid seed germination. He demonstrated at the Botanical Institute of the Garden of plants of Caen the symbiosis of the fungi in the tuberated roots of orchids. He participated in the creation of the plant research station of Mauroc in Saint-Benoît [ 2 ]. With the mathematician Émile Borel, biologist Maurice Caullery and the physicist Aimé Cotton, he co-published the scientific and literary journal La Revue du mois.