Augustin Alexis Damour
Augustin Alexis Damour (born July 19, 1808 in Paris , † September 22, 1902 there ) was a French mineralogist .
Life
He first worked in the Foreign Ministry, where he was promoted to undersecretary and left in 1854 to devote himself to mineralogical research. His first mineral analyzes were published in 1837. He now undertook scientific trips to Central America and the Antilles , which he reported on in 1860.
In 1862 he became a corresponding member of the Paris Academy, in 1878 a member of the French Institute and in 1881, on the recommendation of Kobell, a member of the Royal Bavarian Academy of Sciences . From 1876 he was a corresponding member of the Russian Academy of Sciences in Saint Petersburg .
Shortly after Damour's death, his personal mineral collection was transferred to the " Rheinische Mineralien-Kontor " by Dr. F. Krantz sold.
Mineral descriptions (selection)
Damour achieved great fame primarily for his analyzes and scientific descriptions of the chemical structure of minerals . In his 56 year career, he analyzed and described countless minerals and new types of minerals, among others
- 1841 Roméit
- 1842 faujasite , later redefined as faujasite-na
- 1845 Dufrénoysite
- 1848 Alluaudit
- 1883 Bertrandit
- 1863 jadeite , of which he was able to prove that it was different from nephrite and that jade consists of these two minerals
- 1864 Garnierite , which was later recognized as a mineral mixture
- 1869 Jacobite
- 1877 Vietinghofite together with Lomonossow, whose mineral status was later revoked when it was recognized that it was a variety of Samarskite- (Y) .
- 1880 Kentrolith and Trippkeit together with Gerhard vom Rath
- 1881 Chalkomenit together with Alfred Des Cloizeaux and Dumortiérit , whose first analysis, however, was carried out by Gonnard and Bertrand
- also in 1881 zinc aluminite together with Bertrand
- 1883 Jeremejewit
- 1884 Goyazit
Honors
In 1845 Achilles Delesse described a variety of muscovite , which he named after him as damourite .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Member entry by Augustin Alexis Damour (with a link to an obituary) at the Bavarian Academy of Sciences , accessed on January 22, 2017.
- ^ Foreign members of the Russian Academy of Sciences since 1724. Augustin-Alexis Damour. Russian Academy of Sciences, accessed August 23, 2015 .
- ↑ Mineralienatlas: Roméit
- ↑ Mineral Atlas: Faujasit-Na
- ↑ Mineral Atlas: Dufrénoysite
- ↑ Mineral Atlas: Alluaudit
- ^ Mineral Atlas: Bertrandit
- ↑ Mineral Atlas: Jakobsite
- ^ Mindat - Vietinghofite
- ↑ Mindat - Kentrolite
- ↑ Mindat - trippiness
- ↑ Analysis de la dumortiérite , Bulletin de la Société Minéralogique de France, 4, 6-8 (PDF; 157 kB)
- ^ Mineralienatlas: zinc aluminite
- ↑ Mindat - Damourite
Web links
- The Mineralogical Record - Augustin Alexis Damour
- Short biography of Augustin-Alexis Damour (French) ( Memento from December 25, 2012 in the web archive archive.today )
- turnleft.us - Alexis Damour (English) ( Memento from 7 July 2013 in the web archive archive.today )
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Damour, Augustin Alexis |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French mineralogist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | July 19, 1808 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Paris |
| DATE OF DEATH | September 22, 1902 |
| Place of death | Paris |