Aimé Girard

Alfred Claude Aimé Girard (22 December 1831 – 12 April 1898)[1] 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, the Académie des sciences (1894-1898) and the Comité des travaux historiques et scientifiques (1897-1898, resident member).

He wrote many publications throughout his lifetime on various topics from the fabrication of paper to the cultivation of industrial potatoes.

(All published between 1861-1898)[2] He was a member of the board of directors of the Société française de photographie in 1863 and had been a member of that society from 1855.

[3] He died at 67 years old and was buried in the renowned Père Lachaise cemetery.