About Pierre Viala
Lived 1859 – 1936 (aged 76). Pierre Viala was a French pathologist, politician, lichenologist, agricultural engineer, winegrower and university teacher.
Pierre Viala (24 September 1859 in Lavérune – 11 February 1936) was a French scientist.
In 1901–1910 he and Victor Vermorel published Ampélographie. Traité général de viticulture, a seven-volume ampelography of 3,200 pages describing 5,200 grape varieties.
He has been honoured in the naming of 2 taxa of fungi; Vialaea by Pier Andrea Saccardo in 1896 (Vialaeaceae family) Vialina by Mario Curzi in 1935, which is now a synonym of Phoma .
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Who was Pierre Viala?
French pathologist and politician (1859-1936)
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Pierre Viala was born on 24 September 1859 in Lavérune.
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Pierre Viala died on 11 February 1936 in Paris.
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Pierre Viala was a pathologist, politician, lichenologist, agricultural engineer, winegrower and university teacher.
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Pierre Viala was French.
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