Jean Wyart
Jean Léon Wyart (born October 16, 1902 in Avion , † March 13, 1992 in Paris ) was a French mineralogist and crystallographer.
Wyart was the son of a railway mechanic and was able to attend the preparatory schools of the Grand Écoles with a scholarship from the railway company. In 1923 he began his studies at the École normal supérieure and was then assistant for mineralogy. In 1933 he received his doctorate with a dissertation on zeolites . From 1948 to 1973 he headed the Sorbonne Mineralogy Laboratory . He also taught at the École supérieure de physique et de chimie industrielles de la ville de Paris (ESPCI ParisTech).
From 1947 he was co-editor of Acta Crystallographica. In 1957 he became President of the International Crystallographic Union. From 1941 he was head of the CNRS Documentation Center . He set up the exhibition on crystallography at the Palais de la Découverte . In 1959 he became a member of the Academie des Sciences .
With Charles Mauguin he was a pioneer of crystallographic X-ray structure analysis in France.
In 1966 he became a member of the Leopoldina .
Web links
- Entry in the Encyclopedia Universalis
- Memories of Wyart, Comité Francais d'Histoire de la Geologie 1987, Annales des Mines
- Literature by and about Jean Wyart in the SUDOC catalog (Association of French University Libraries)
Individual evidence
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Wyart, Jean |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Léon Wyart, Jean (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French mineralogist and crystallographer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 16, 1902 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Avion |
| DATE OF DEATH | March 13, 1992 |
| Place of death | Paris |