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Born August 7, 1844 • Paris • France
Died September 27, 1911 (aged 67) • Paris • France
Subjects Of Study petrographic microscope
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German geologist
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Norman L. Bowen
Canadian petrologist
Victor Moritz Goldschmidt
Victor Moritz Goldschmidt
Swiss mineralogist
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Karl Heinrich Ferdinand Rosenbusch
German geologist
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Henry Clifton Sorby
British geologist
Brøgger, Waldemar Christofer
Waldemar Christofer Brøgger
Norwegian geologist
Alexandre Brongniart, plaster medallion by David d'Angers
Alexandre Brongniart
French geologist
Engraved portrait of Rene Just Hauy, French priest and mineralogist, shown from the chest up in formal attire, with his name printed below.
René-Just Haüy
French mineralogist
Lacroix
Alfred Lacroix
French mineralogist
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Dieudonné Dolomieu
French geologist
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Jean-Étienne Guettard
French geologist
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Charles Friedel
French chemist
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Charles Mauguin
French mineralogist
Georgius Agricola.
Georgius Agricola
German scholar and scientist
James D. Dana
James D. Dana
American geologist and mineralogist
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Vladimir Ivanovich Vernadsky
Russian scientist
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Charles Thomas Jackson
American physician and geologist
Henslow, lithograph by T.H. Maguire, 1851
John Stevens Henslow
British botanist
Martin Heinrich Klaproth, engraving
Martin Heinrich Klaproth
German chemist
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Richard Kirwan
Irish chemist