Gabriel Auguste Daubrée

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Gabriel Auguste Daubrée

Gabriel Auguste Daubrée (born June 25, 1814 in Metz , † May 29, 1896 in Paris ) was a French geologist. He is considered a co-founder of experimental geology and meteorite research.

Daubrée was Professor of Mineralogy and Geology at the University of Strasbourg in 1838 and Professor of Geology at the Muséum national d'histoire naturelle in Paris in 1861 . On May 20, 1861 he became a member of the Académie des Sciences in Paris. In 1881 he was admitted to the Royal Society as a foreign member . He was a member of the Society of German Natural Scientists and Doctors and was elected a foreign member of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences in 1861. From 1861 he was a corresponding member of the Russian Academy of Sciences in Saint Petersburg , from 1863 an elected member of the American Philosophical Society , from 1876 a foreign member of the Göttingen Academy of Sciences . and from 1895 Honorary Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh .

He examined the origin and formation of rocks and worked on the classification and composition of meteorites. Daubrée suspected as early as 1866 that nickel iron is a general component of planets and the earth's core.

Honors

In 1880 he was awarded the Wollaston Medal of the Geological Society of London .

The fish Saurichthys daubreei FIRTION 1934 as well as the minerals Daubréelith and Daubréeit and the lunar crater Daubrée are named after him.

Web links

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References and comments

  1. ^ List of members since 1666: Letter D. Académie des sciences, accessed on November 4, 2019 (French).
  2. ↑ Members of the Society of German Natural Scientists and Doctors 1857
  3. ↑ Member entry by Gabriel Auguste Daubrée (with picture) at the Bavarian Academy of Sciences , accessed on February 3, 2016.
  4. ^ Member History: Gabriel A. Daubrée. American Philosophical Society, accessed July 6, 2018 .
  5. ↑ 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. 65.
  6. ^ Fellows Directory. Biographical Index: Former RSE Fellows 1783–2002. Royal Society of Edinburgh, accessed October 20, 2019 .
  7. ↑ Firtion, F .: Description d'une nouvelle espèce de Saurichthys du Grès à Voltzia de Wasselonne. In: Bulletin du Service de la Carte géologique d'Alsace et de Lorraine, 2, 1934, pp. 89-97
personal data
SURNAME Daubrée, Gabriel Auguste
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French geologist
DATE OF BIRTH June 25, 1814
PLACE OF BIRTH Metz
DATE OF DEATH May 29, 1896
Place of death Paris