Alexandre Félix Gustave Achille Leymérie

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Alexandre Leymérie

Alexandre Félix Gustave Achille Leymérie (born January 23, 1801 in Paris , † October 5, 1878 in Toulouse ) was a French professor at the Faculty of Mineralogy and Geology at the University of Toulouse and a corresponding member of the Académie des Sciences .

Leymerie had studied at the École Polytechnique and taught geometry and applied mechanics at the Collège in Troyes from 1827. He also studied geology and mineralogy. In 1833 he became a mathematics professor at the École Industrielle de la Martinière in Lyon. In 1837 he was in Paris and heard lectures from the most famous French geologist Élie de Beaumont , who wanted to establish geology as an independent discipline in France. In 1840 he received his doctorate and became a professor in Toulouse.

Leymérie specialized in his work on the geology of the Pyrenees and Aquitaine , more precisely the Aquitaine basin . Among other things, he is considered to be the first to describe the minerals iodargyrite and ranciéit .

He saw the Pyrenees as a model for studying mountain formation (before any other mountain range in the world) and had a very practical, almost "physical" relationship to them. His powers of observation in his field studies were praised by Leopold von Buch , among others .

In 1853 he was involved in a scientific dispute with the director of the observatory in Toulouse Frédéric Petit (1810-1865), when he claimed the Pyrenees were hollow, which he concluded from pendulum observations that had shown no gravity influence of the mountain range.

Works

  • Cours de mineralogie (histoire naturelle) by Victor Masson et Fils, - Edouard Privat, Paris-Toulouse, 1867
  • Elements de mineralogie et de geologie: comprenant des notions de lithologie et un lexique ou se trouventindiques les caracteres generiques des fossiles in Victor Masson, Libr., Paris, 1866

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Académiedes sciences - In Memoriam, Les Membres de l'Académie des sciences depuis sa création ( Memento of May 1, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) (French)
  2. ↑ Mineral Atlas: Jodargyrit
  3. ↑ Mineral Atlas: Ranciéit
  4. ↑ Jerome Lamy, The Pyrenees are not hollow: the mountain as a boundary object , Hist. cienc. saude-Manguinhos vol. 16 no.3 Rio de Janeiro July / Sept. 2009

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SURNAME Leymérie, Alexandre Félix Gustave Achille
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French geologist and mineralogist
DATE OF BIRTH January 23, 1801
PLACE OF BIRTH Paris
DATE OF DEATH October 5, 1878
Place of death Toulouse