| LC control no. | n 90613724 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| Personal name heading | Des Cloizeaux, A. (Alfred), 1817-1897 |
| Variant(s) | Des Cloizeaux, Alfred Louis Olivier Legrand, 1817-1897 Cloizeaux, A. des (Alfred), 1817-1897 Des Cloizeaux, Alfred, 1817-1897 |
| Birth date | 1817-10-17 |
| Death date | 1897-05 |
| Place of birth | Beauvais (France) |
| Place of death | Paris (France) |
| Field of activity | Mineralogy |
| Affiliation | École normale supérieure (France) Musée de l'homme (Muséum national d'histoire naturelle) Académie des sciences (France) |
| Profession or occupation | College teachers Mineralogists |
| Found in | LCCN gs05-426: His Manuel de minéralogie, 1862-74 (hdg.: Des Cloizeaux, A[lfred Louis Olivier Legrand] 1817-1897; usage: A. Des Cloizeaux) Minéralogique,1817-1897: (par M.[onsieur] Des Cloizeaux) OCLC, viewed June 27, 2019 (AAP: Des Cloizeaux, A. (Alfred), 1817-1897 ; Des Cloizeaux, Alfred ; Des Cloizeaux, Alfred Louis Olivier Legrand, 1817-1897 ; usage: A. Des Cloizeaux ; A. Des Cloizeaux ; Alfred Des Cloizeaux) Wikipedia, viewed June 27, 2019 (Alfred Louis Olivier Legrand Des Cloizeaux (17 October 1817-- 6 May 1897), French mineralogist, was born at Beauvais, in the department of Oise. He became professor of mineralogy at the Ecole Normale Superieure and afterwards at the Musee d'Histoire Naturelle in Paris. He studied the geysers of Iceland, and wrote also on the classification of some of the eruptive rocks; but his main work consisted in the systematic examination of the crystals of numerous minerals, in researches on their optical properties and on the subject of polarization. He wrote specially on the means of determining the different feldspars. Des Cloizeaux was elected as a member of the French Academy of Sciences in 1869, and was its President in 1889. He was awarded the Wollaston Medal by the Geological Society of London in 1886. His best-known books are Leçons de cristallographie (1861); Manuel de minéralogie (2 vols., Paris, 1862, 1874 and 1893)) BNF in VIAF, viewed June 27, 2019 (AAP: Des Cloizeaux, Alfred, 1817-1897) |
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