Auguste Michel-Lévy
Auguste Michel-Lévy (born August 7, 1844 in Paris , † September 27, 1911 ibid) was a French petrographer, mineralogist and geologist.
It was originally called Lévy, but then changed its name to Michel-Lévy.
Michel-Lévy was the son of the physician Michel Lévy and studied from 1862 at the École polytechnique and then at the École des Mines . He was an engineer in the Corps des Mines. There he was initially (as the best of his class after graduating from the École des Mines) from 1867 secretary in the Conseil général des mines. From 1876 he was involved in the creation of the geological map of France as a member of the Service de la Carte géologique de France, of which he became director in 1887. In 1907 he became inspector general of the mines. In 1905 he succeeded Ferdinand André Fouqué as professor of geology at the Collège de France .
He used the polarizing microscope to determine the mineral content of rocks and is considered the founder of microscopic petrography (Mineralogie micrographique) in France . From 1875 he worked with Fouqué, whom he regarded as his teacher. In 1888 he published interference color tables named after him in his book for the determination of minerals in thin sections . A classification of igneous rocks also comes from him. With Fouqué he carried out chemical studies on the synthesis of rocks from melts.
In 1896 he became a member of the Académie des Sciences and in 1898 a corresponding member of the Prussian Academy of Sciences . In 1901 he was elected a corresponding member of the Göttingen Academy of Sciences .
His son Albert Victor Michel-Lévy (1877–1955) was professor of petrography at the Sorbonne and a member of the Academie des Sciences.
Fonts
- with Jean Marie Frederic Delafond (1844–1933): Bassin houiller et permien d'Autun et d'Épinac, Paris 1889
- Structures et classification des roches éruptives, Paris: Baudry 1889
- with FA Fouqué: Minéralogie Micrographique. Roches éruptives Françaises
- with FA Fouqué: Synthése des minéraux et des roches 1882
- with Alfred Lacroix: Les Minéraux des Roches, Volume 1, Paris: Baudry 1888
- with Alfred Lacroix: Tableaux des minéraux des roches, Paris: Baudry 1890
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Holger Krahnke: The members of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen 1751-2001 (= Treatises of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen, Philological-Historical Class. Volume 3, Vol. 246 = Treatises of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen, Mathematical-Physical Class. Episode 3, vol. 50). Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2001, ISBN 3-525-82516-1 , p. 150.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Michel-Lévy, Auguste |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Lévy, Auguste |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French petrographer, mineralogist and geologist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | August 7, 1844 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Paris |
| DATE OF DEATH | September 27, 1911 |
| Place of death | Paris |