# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/rene-just-hauy
# Generated: 2026-08-14T22:27:51.119Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/rene-just-hauy"
name: "René Just Haüy"
slug: "rene-just-hauy"
description: "René Just Haüy FRS MWS FRSE was a French priest and mineralogist, commonly styled the Abbé Haüy after he was made an honorary canon of Notre Dame. Due to his innovative work on crystal structure and his four-volume Traité de Minéralogie (1801), he is often referred to as the \"Father of Modern Crystallography\". During the French Revolution he also helped to establish the metric system."
tagline: "French mineralogist"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Ren%C3%A9_Just_Ha%C3%BCy_2.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "FR"
category:
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  slug: "scientists"
profileType:
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  slug: "scientist"
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birthDate: "1743-02-28"
deathDate: "1822-06-01"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             0
  historical:           20.57502133333334
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  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump