Gabriel-Auguste Daubrée

Gabriel-Auguste Daubrée (born June 25, 1814, Metz, France—died May 29, 1896, Paris) was a French geochemist and a pioneer in the application of experimental methods to the study of diverse geologic phenomena. In 1838 Daubrée became regional mining engineer for the département of Haut-Rhin, where he worked for eight years on a geologic map of the region. In 1838 he also became professor of mineralogy and geology at the University of Strasbourg, where he founded...