Jean Bernard (medic)

Jean Bernard (born May 26, 1907 in Paris , † April 17, 2006 ibid) was a French hematologist and oncologist .

Life

Bernard was born in Paris into a family of engineers. He spent the First World War in Brittany, where he attended the communal school. Returning to Paris, he completed the Lycée Louis-le-Grand and then began his studies at the Paris Faculté de sciences , the Faculty of Medicine ( Faculté de Médecine ) and finally at the Pasteur Institute . He was influenced by the leading French hematologist of the day, Paul Chevallier , and the pediatrician Robert Debré . During the German occupation he was active in the le maquis resistance movement. In 1943 he was therefore imprisoned for nine months in the German prison in Fresnes and wrote poems in prison that were later published under the title "Survivance". As a prolific author, he continued to publish numerous specialist books and individual reports on hematology. In 1972 Bernard was elected to the Académie des sciences , three years later he received a seat in the Académie française .

In 1983 he received the InBev-Baillet Latour Health Prize .

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In 1947, Bernard and Marcel Bessis achieved the first remission in a child with leukemia . Three years later he first described chemical leukemia in humans in factory workers who came into contact with benzene . In 1956 he became professor of oncology and a year later chief physician at the Hôpital Saint-Louis in Paris. In 1961 he became a professor of hematology and took over the management of the “Institute for Research into Leukemia and Blood Diseases” at his hospital. According to him, these are Bernard's syndrome , a familial caused by blood decay and associated with jaundice anemia ( hemolytic anemia ), and Bernard-Soulier syndrome , an inherited disorder of blood platelets ( thrombocytes ), which is associated with increased bleeding tendency, named.

Web links

• Literature by and about Jean Bernard in the catalog of the German National Library
• Short biography and list of works of the Académie française (French)
• Jean Bernard at whonamedit.com