Louis Duparc

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Louis Duparc (born February 14, 1866 in Carouge , † October 20, 1932 in Geneva ) was a Swiss mineralogist, professor of mineralogy, petrology and analytical chemistry at the University of Geneva and there director of the laboratories for mineralogical and analytical chemistry.

Life

Duparc studied chemistry and physics at the University of Geneva and mineralogy and petrography in Paris. From 1888 he was the successor to Charles Soret (1854-1904) professor in Geneva.

He expanded the microscopic methods of Evgraf Stepanowitsch Fyodorow and applied them to petrography. Duparc dealt with metamorphic rocks, the petrography of the Mont-Blanc massif and reservoir science, where he undertook expeditions worldwide, including to the platinum deposits in the Urals. He worked a lot with his students, including his successor at the University of Geneva Marcel Gysin (1891–1974). Other students were Raymond Galopin (1901–1992), curator for minerals at the museum in Geneva and specialist in opaque minerals, and the geologist Henri Lagotala (1889–1954).

Honors

In 1926 Duparc became an honorary member of the Mineralogical Society of Great Britain and Ireland . In 1912 he was accepted as a corresponding member of the Russian Academy of Sciences in Saint Petersburg .

In 1932, SE Nicolet named a newly discovered mineral Duparc in honor of Duparcit . In later investigations, however, it turned out that the material was identical to the already known Vesuvianite except for a slightly higher potassium and iron content . Duparcite has therefore been a variety of Vesuvianite since 1942.

Fonts

  • Traité de Technique Minéralogique et Pétrographique, 2 volumes, Leipzig 1907, 1913 (part 1, optical methods, with Francis Pearce, part 2, chemical methods, with Alfred Monnier)
  • with Alfred Monnier: Traité de chimie analytique qualitative suivi de tables systématiques pour l'analyse minérale, 3rd edition, Geneva 1914
  • with Marguerite Tikanovitch Le platine et les gîtes métallifères de l'Oural et du monde , 1920

literature

  • Obituary by Marcel Gysin, Bulletin suisse de minéralogie et pétrographie, Volume 13, 1933, pp. 1-16

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Foreign members of the Russian Academy of Sciences since 1724. Louis-Claude Duparc. Russian Academy of Sciences, accessed August 30, 2015 .
  2. ↑ Spencer Thirteenth list of new mineral names , 1934, pdf ( Memento of the original from February 25, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.minersoc.org
  3. ↑ The Mineralogical Record: Glossary of Obsolete Mineral Names - D (PDF 193.6 kB; p. 20)
personal data
SURNAME Duparc, Louis
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss mineralogist
DATE OF BIRTH February 14, 1866
PLACE OF BIRTH Carouge
DATE OF DEATH October 20, 1932
Place of death Geneva