Émile Argand
Émile Argand (born January 6, 1879 in Eaux-Vives , today Geneva , † September 14, 1940 in Neuchâtel ) was a Swiss geologist and mineralogist . He is known for his study of the tectonics of the Alps and Asia. He was an early supporter of Alfred Wegener's theory of continental drift .
Argand attended vocational school in Geneva and then worked as a draftsman in a construction company. In 1902 he took his high school diploma in Paris, where his mother lived (who had been divorced from his father since 1887). He then studied medicine in Paris and Lausanne , but switched to geology in 1904, which he studied with Maurice Lugeon at the University of Lausanne and with Arnold Heim and Ulrich Grubenmann at the University of Zurich . He had his first publication in 1905 with Maurice Lugeon on the structure of the Penninic and overthrusts in Sicily . His dissertation (1909) arose from his geological map of the Dent Blanche massif from 1908 . In 1912 he became professor of geology in Neuchâtel and in 1928 professor of mineralogy. In 1911 he published maps of the structure of the Western Alps and the Penninic and in 1916 a comprehensive overview of the formation of the Alps ( Sur l'arc des Alpes occidentales ). In 1924 his main work on the tectonics of Asia appeared.
In 1913 he received the Spendiaroff Prize and in 1926 the Marcel Benoist Prize (for his book and the map of the tectonics of Asia).
The Dorsa Argand on the Earth's moon are named after him.
Works
- La Tectonique de l'Asie. In. Extrait du Compte-rendu du XIIIe Congrès géologique international 1922 (Liège). Volume 1, pp. 171-372.
- Sur l'arc des Alps Occidentales. In: Eclogae geologicae Helveticae. Volume 15, Lausanne 1916, pp. 145-192.
- Les nappes de recouvrement des Alpes Pennines et leur prolongement structuraux. In: Contributions to the geological map of Switzerland. 31. Delivery, pp. 1–26.
literature
- Marie-Jeanne Ducommun Cernuschi: Argand, Emile. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .
Web links
- Publications by and about Émile Argand in the Helveticat catalog of the Swiss National Library
- Argand on the side of the Marcel Benoist Prize
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Argand, Émile |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Swiss geologist and mineralogist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 6, 1879 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Eaux-Vives , today Geneva |
| DATE OF DEATH | September 14, 1940 |
| Place of death | Neuchâtel NE |