Alfred Of Cloizeaux
Alfred Louis Olivier Legrand Of Cloizeaux , born with Beauvais (Oise) the October 17th 1817 and dead the May 6th 1897, is a mineralogist French.
He studies with the Collège de France where he has as a professor Jean-Baptiste Biot. He becomes professor with the National university, then with the national Muséum of natural history to Paris. He studies the Geyser S of Iceland and publishes work on the eruptive rocks. He especially devotes to the systematic study of the many crystals mineral, their properties Optique S as well as the polarization - he thus discovers the rotatory polarization of the Sulfate of strychnin - and in the criteria of classification of the Feldspath S. He takes part in the rise of the modern Pétrologie.
In 1869, Of Cloizeaux is elected member of the Academy of Science, of which he is president in 1889. He is prize winner of the Médaille Rumford in 1870. He receives the Médaille Wollaston off decreed by the Geological Society London in 1886. Its most known works are Leçons of crystallography (1861) and Manuel of mineralogy (2 volumes, 1862,1874 and 1893).
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