Jean Bernard (physician)

Jean Bernard ( born May 26, 1907 in Paris, † April 17, 2006 ) 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 local school. On his return to Paris he attended the Lycée Louis -le- Grand and then began his studies at the Paris Faculty of Sciences ( Faculté des Sciences ), the Medical Faculty ( Faculté de Médecine ) and finally at the Institut Pasteur. He was influenced by the leading French hematologists his time, Paul Chevallier, and the pediatrician Robert Debré. During the German occupation he was active in the resistance movement le maquis. In 1943 he was therefore imprisoned for nine months in German prison in Fresnes and wrote in prison poems that were later published under the title " survivance ". As a prolific author, he continued to publish numerous books and monographs on hematology. 1972 Bernard was elected to the Académie des sciences, three years later, he received a seat in the Académie française.

Work

Bernard scored 1947 together with Marcel Bessis the first remission in a child who was suffering from leukemia. Three years later, he described the first time in humans caused by chemicals leukemia in factory workers who came into contact with benzene. In 1956 he became a professor of oncology and a year later became chief physician at the Hôpital Saint -Louis in Paris. In 1961 he became professor of hematology and became director of the "Institute for the Study of leukemia and blood disorders " at his hospital. According to him, the Bernard- syndrome, a familial caused by blood decay and associated with jaundice anemia ( hemolytic anemia), and the Bernard- Soulier syndrome, a congenital disorder of blood platelets ( thrombocytes), which is associated with increased bleeding tendency, named.