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Also Known As François-Antoine-Alfred Lacroix
Born February 4, 1863 • Mâcon • France
Died March 12, 1948 (aged 85) • Paris • France
Subjects Of Study mineral • optics

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Georgius Agricola.
Georgius Agricola
German scholar and scientist
Dana, James D.
James D. Dana
American geologist and mineralogist
Edward Daniel Clarke
English mineralogist
Victor Mordechai Goldschmidt
German crystallographer
Axel Fredrik Cronstedt
Swedish mineralogist and chemist
Fermat, portrait by Roland Lefèvre; in the Narbonne City Museums, France
Pierre de Fermat
French mathematician
Fresnel, detail of an engraving by Ambroise Tardieu after a contemporary portrait, 1825
Augustin-Jean Fresnel
French physicist
Jean Buridan
French philosopher and scientist
Gabriel-Auguste Daubrée
French geochemist
Alexandre Brongniart, plaster medallion by David d'Angers
Alexandre Brongniart
French geologist
Auguste Michel-Lévy
French petrologist
René-Just Haüy
French mineralogist
Peiresc, Nicolas-Claude Fabri de
Nicolas-Claude Fabri de Peiresc
French humanist
Dieudonné Dolomieu
French geologist
Jean-Étienne Guettard
French geologist
Charles Friedel
French chemist
Charles Mauguin
French mineralogist
Understanding Newton's theory of universal gravitation
Isaac Newton
English physicist and mathematician
Johannes Kepler
Johannes Kepler
German astronomer
Helmholtz.
Hermann von Helmholtz
German scientist and philosopher