René Just Haüy
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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".
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Pearwood model of rock crystal rhomboid, made by René-Just Haüy, Teylers Museum
Integrant molecules form a pentagonal dodecahedron of pyrite, Traité de minéralogie (1801)
Haüy with a contact goniometer, ca. 1812
René Just Haüy, statue by Isidore Hippolyte Brion at the National Museum of Natural History in Paris
Haüyne crystalsAwards 2
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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.
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