Georges Bardet

{{Short description|French physician}}

{{See also|Bardet–Biedl syndrome}}

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Georges, Louis, Bardet (1885–1966) was a French physician who is known for first describing a rare genetic disease. In his graduation thesis at the University of Paris in 1920,{{Cite book|title=Sur un syndrome d'obésité infantile avec polydactylie et rétinite pigmentaire (contribution à l'étude des formes cliniques de l'obésité hypophysaire)|last=Bardet|first=Georges|publisher=Université de Paris|year=1920|location=Paris}} Bardet wrote about a medical condition characterized by obesity, retinitis pigmentosa, polydactyly and hypogonadism. Two years later, Hungarian physician Arthur Biedl described the same symptoms in two sisters, separate from Bardet's findings.{{Cite journal|last=Biedl|first=Arthur|title=Ein Geschwisterpaar mit adiposo-genitaler Dystrophie|journal=Deutsche Medizinische Wochenschrift |issue=48 |year=1922 |page=1630}} This condition has since become known as the Bardet–Biedl syndrome.{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=-TGgBQAAQBAJ&dq=Georges%2520louis%2520bardet&pg=PA17|title=The Man Behind the Syndrome|last=Beighton|first=Greta|date=6 December 2012|publisher=Springer Science & Business Media|isbn=9781447114154|language=en}}

Georges Bardet was the uncle of Jean Bardet, the founder of Éditions du Seuil.

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