Auguste Daubrée

Gabriel Auguste Daubree, known as Auguste Daubree, was a French geologist born June 25, 1814, in Metz, France, who died May 29, 1896, in Paris, and who qualified as a mining engineer at the Ecole Polytechnique in Paris at the age of twenty before holding positions as professor of mineralogy and geology at Strasbourg, engineer-in-chief of mines from 1859, professor of geology at the Museum Histoire Naturelle in Paris from 1861, and director of the Ecole des Mines from 1872. Best known for applying experimental methods to structural geology, his research addressed mineral formation, thermal waters, metamorphism, rock deformation, earthquakes and meteorite classification, including dangerous experiments producing artificial minerals and rocks. He served as vice-president of the French Academy of Sciences in 1878 and its president in 1879, was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of London in 1881, received the Grand Officer grade of the French Legion of Honour in 1881, received the Hayden Memorial Geological Award in 1894, and received the Wollaston Medal in 1880; the minerals daubreelite and daubreeite and a lunar crater are named in his honor.