Eugène Raguin

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Eugène Raguin

Eugène Paul Antoine Jacques Raguin ( June 13, 1900 - November 10, 2001 ) was a French geologist .

Life

Raguin studied from 1918 at the École polytechnique and from 1922 at the École des Mines , where he later became a professor. He was also in the French geological map service ( Service de la Carte géologique ), whose director he became in 1930. After the death of Louis de Launay (1860-1938) he became professor of geology at the École des Mines and the École nationale des ponts et chaussées .

In 1951 he received the Prix Gosselin of the French Geological Society. He was the first president of the French Geochemical Society.

He dealt with the geology of the Massif Central , granite and geology , especially in Africa.

Raguin had been married to Yvette Bertrand, the daughter of geologist Marcel Alexandre Bertrand , since 1925 . He was friends with Eugen Wegmann .

In 1962 he received the Gustav Steinmann Medal .

Fonts

  • Contribution à l'étude de la tectonique dans la région Ouest du Massif central français , Béranger, Paris, 1927.
  • Haute-Tarentaise et Haute-Maurienne (Alpes de Savoie) , Paris, Imprimerie nationale, 1930.
  • Géologie appliquée , Masson, Paris, 1934.
  • Géologie des gîtes minéraux , Masson, Paris, 1940.
  • Géologie du Granite , Masson, Paris, 1946
    • English translation: Geology of Granite , Interscience 1965
  • Pétrographie du Maroc , Edita, Rabat, 1952.
  • Petrographie des roches plutoniques dans leur cadre géologique ... , Masson, Paris, 1970.

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personal data
SURNAME Raguin, Eugène
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Raguin, Eugène Paul Antoine Jacques
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French geologist
DATE OF BIRTH June 13, 1900
DATE OF DEATH November 10, 2001