Victor André Cornil

In 1869 he became professeur agrègé to the Paris faculty, and in 1884 a member of the Académie Nationale de Médecine.

Cornil was elected a member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences in 1902.

In 1863 Cornil demonstrated histological evidence that supported Guillaume Duchenne's hypothesis regarding the cause of paralysis in poliomyelitis.

[1] With Austrian anatomist Richard Heschl (1824–1881) and Rudolph Jürgens of Berlin, he was among the first to use methyl violet as an histological stain for detection of amyloid.

With Victor Babeş (1854–1926), he wrote an important paper on bacterial infections titled Les bactéries et leur rôle dans l’anatomie et l’histologie pathologiques des maladies infectieuses,[4] and with Ranvier, he published an influential manual of histopathology called Manuel d'histologie pathologique.