13 Facts About Marcel Bessis

Marcel Claude Bessis was a French physician known for research on blood cells.

Marcel Bessis was educated at the Lycee Janson-de-Sailly in Paris, France.

Marcel Bessis developed an interest in microscopy in his teenage years and went on to study medicine at the University of Paris.

Marcel Bessis invented new instruments to aid his research and developed techniques for manipulating cells using laser microbeams.

Maxwell Wintrobe credited Marcel Bessis with coining the terms stomatocyte, echinocyte and discocyte.

From 1946 to 1980, Marcel Bessis was editor-in-chief of the Nouvelle revue d'hematologie.

Marcel Bessis began working as a professor of hematology at the University of Paris in 1961, becoming full professor in 1972.

Marcel Bessis was appointed editor-in-chief of Blood Cells in 1975, and from 1986 until his death in 1994 was a co-director of the Centre de recherches sur l'ecologie des cellules du sang at the Hopital de la Salpetriere.

In 1967, Marcel Bessis was named a knight of the Legion d'Honneur.

Marcel Bessis was a commander of the Ordre national du Merite and an officer of the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres.

Marcel Bessis was elected to the French Academy of Sciences in 1979 and the Academie royale de Medecine de Belgique in 1991.

Marcel Bessis was an honorary president of the Societe francaise d'hematologie.

Marcel Bessis married Claude Desserteaux in 1952; the couple raised three children.