Jean Bernard (physician)

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Jean Bernard
Born26 May 1907
Paris, France
Died17 April 2006 (aged 98)
Paris, France
NationalityFrench
Scientific career
Fields
haematologist
InstitutionsPasteur Institute

Jean Bernard (26 May 1907 in Paris – 17 April 2006 in Paris) was a French

Leukaemia at the University of Paris. After graduating in medicine in Paris in 1926 he commenced his laboratory training with the bacteriologist Gaston Ramon at the Pasteur Institute
in 1929.

In 1932 Bernard gave the first description of the use of high dosage

neoplastic nature of leukaemia (1933–1937) to the formulation of methods of treatment. Bernard gave his name to Bernard's syndrome and Bernard–Soulier syndrome. In all, Bernard published 14 textbooks and monographs on haematology.[1]

During the German occupation of France, Bernard was active in the French Resistance. [2][dead link]

In 1973, he became a member of the

Académie française
on 18 March 1976.

In 1981 he was elected as a member of

Artois-Baillet Latour Health Prize
.

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