Pierre Viala
Pierre Viala was a French scientist.
In 1901-1910 he and Victor Vermorel published Ampélographie. Traité général de viticulture, a seven-volume ampelography of 3,200 pages describing 5,200 grape varieties.
He has been honoured in the naming of 2 taxa of fungi;
Vialaea by Pier Andrea Saccardo in 1896
Vialina by Mario Curzi in 1935, which is now a synonym of Phoma.