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Journal of Plankton Research 2009 31(3):345-348; doi:10.1093/plankt/fbn129
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Bernard Dussart (1922–2008)

Stéphan Jacquet

INRA, UMR 42 CARRTEL
75 Avenue de Corzent
74200 Thonon-les-Bains, France

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Bernard Dussart was one of the leading figures involved in promoting, developing and shaping lacustrian research in France. Until the 1st November 2008, he embodied the living memory of the French limnology.

Bernard Dussart was born on 17 August 1922. In 1945, after having spent some time in the Laboratory of the celebrated Professor Pierre-Paul Grassé at the University of Paris, he was contacted by the Central Station of Applied Hydrobiology of the Ministry of Agriculture and asked to organize a lacustrian research station at Thonon-les-Bains. On 1st April 1945, he left Paris accompanied by his future Director Paul Vivier, head of the fisheries service, to take over the Thonon Station and set about to organizing it. At this time, the station consisted of an empty room and had no name and no research programme. Everything remained to be created by B. Dussart, whose degree we should note was in . . . [Full Text of this Article]


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