Alexandre Brongniart
French chemist, mineralogist, and zoologist (1770-1847) · France · Scientists · Died at 77
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Portrait of Alexandre Brongniart by Emile-Charles Wattier, 1847
Paris Map that Brongniart and Cuvier used to study the strata around Paris area![The Silurian trilobite Calymene blumenbachii Brongn.; Brongniart in Desmarest, 1817.[8] From the Much Wenlock Limestone Formation, Homerian Stage, Wenlock Series, Dudley, West Midlands, UK.](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d6/Calymene_blumenbachii.jpg/500px-Calymene_blumenbachii.jpg)
The Silurian trilobite Calymene blumenbachii Brongn.; Brongniart in Desmarest, 1817.[8] From the Much Wenlock Limestone Formation, Homerian Stage, Wenlock Series, Dudley, West Midlands, UK.
Mme Alexandre Brongniart, née Cécile Coquebert de Montbret, 1800, by Jeanne-Elisabeth ChaudetAwards
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Alexandre Brongniart was a French chemist, mineralogist, geologist, paleontologist, and zoologist, who collaborated with Georges Cuvier on a study of the geology of the region around Paris. Observing fossil content as well as lithology in sequences, he classified Tertiary formations and was responsible for defining 19th century geological studies as a subject of science by assembling observations and classifications.
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