Giuseppe Raimondo Pio Cesàro
Giuseppe Raimondo Pio Cesàro (born September 7, 1849 in Naples , † January 20, 1939 in Comblain-au-Point ) was a Belgian mineralogist.
Cesáro was the older brother of the mathematician Ernesto Cesàro . He studied in Naples (originally he wanted to be an engineer) and from 1866 at the École des Mines in Liège . Because of his rebellious character and health problems, he had to leave university after two years (he only had one candidate title). He worked as an assistant to the geology professor Gustave de Walque (Dewalque, 1826–1905) in Liège. In 1888 he became a Belgian citizen. His work brought him in 1891 (after de Walque retired) a professorship at the University of Liège, where he gave courses on crystallography and mineralogy. In 1895 he became a professor (from 1900 as a full professor). During the First World War he conducted research in Cambridge. In 1919 he became director of the Mineralogical Museum in Liège. In 1921 he retired.
He dealt with descriptive, theoretical and optical crystallography and the minerals of Belgium and Italy (area of Naples) as well as calcite. In 1906 he traveled again to Naples on the occasion of the eruption of Vesuvius.
He was taught by the Belgian king as a math teacher for Crown Prince Leopold III. selected.
Since 1894 he was a corresponding and since 1906 full member of the Royal Belgian Academy of Sciences and Fine Arts and a member of the Liège Society of Sciences. In 1915 he received the opponent's prize from the Académie des Sciences . He was a member since 1930. He was a Grand Officer of the Order of Leopold , Commander of the Italian Crown Order and wore the Officer's Cross of the Order of St. Mauritius and Lazarus .
The mineral Cesàrolith was named after him by his student Henri Buttgenbach .
Fonts
- Elements de Cristallographie et de Mineralogie, Liège 1914
- Description of the minéraux phosphatés, sulfatés et carbonatés du sol belge 1896
Web links
- The Mineralogical Record
- Flemish biography
- Biography of Buttgenbach at Biographie National, pdf, 18.8 MB
Individual evidence
- ^ List of members since 1666: Letter C. Académie des sciences, accessed on October 28, 2019 (French).
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Cesàro, Giuseppe Raimondo Pio |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Belgian geologist and mineralogist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 7, 1849 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Naples |
| DATE OF DEATH | January 20, 1939 |
| Place of death | Comblain-au-Point |