Aimé Girard

Alfred Claude Aimé Girard (1831 to 1898) was a French chemist and agronomist who was a professor at the Conservatoire des Arts et Métiers. He was a member of the Académie d'Agriculture and of the Académie des sciences from 1894 to 1898, and of the Comité des travaux historiques et scientifiques in 1897 and 1898. He wrote many publications between 1861 and 1898 on topics from the fabrication of paper to the cultivation of industrial potatoes, among them Recherches sur la culture de la pomme de terre industrielle in 1889, Composition chimique et valeur alimentaire des diverses parties du grain de froment in 1884 and Recherches sur le développement progressif de la grappe de raisin in 1898. He died aged 67 and was buried in the Père Lachaise cemetery.