Gabriel Auguste Daubrée

"Daubrée" redirects here. For the lunar crater, see Daubrée (crater).
Gabriel Auguste Daubrée
Gabriel Auguste Daubrée
Born25 June 1814
Metz
Died29 May 1896(1896-05-29) (aged 81)
Paris 7ème
Alma materÉcole Polytechnique
AwardsWollaston Medal (1880)
Hayden Memorial Geological Award (1894)
Scientific career
Fieldsgeology
ThesisSur les températures du globe terrestre et sur les principaux phénomènes géologiques qui paraissent être en rapport avec la chaleur propre de la terre (1838)

Gabriel Auguste Daubrée MIF FRS FRSE (25 June 1814 – 29 May 1896) was a French geologist, best known for applying experimental methods to structural geology. He served as the director of the École des Mines as well as the president of the French Academy of Sciences.

This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is available under Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 unless otherwise noted. Additional terms may apply for the media files.