Félix Pisani
Félix Pisani (28 April 1831, Constantinople – 7 November 1920, Paris) was a French chemist and mineralogist.
He was born in Istanbul, where his Venetian father worked in the Russian diplomatic service. Beginning in 1854, he studied chemistry in Paris at a private school run by Charles Frédéric Gerhardt (1816–1856).
Best known as a dealer in minerals and other geological materials, Pisani maintained a private laboratory on the Rue de Furstenberg in Paris, from where he conducted private lectures and performed consultant work. His laboratory was a popular meeting place of local mineralogists until the creation of the Société minéralogique de France in 1878, of which Pisani was a founding member.[1]
His primary written work was Traité élémentaire de minéralogie ("Elementary treatise of mineralogy"), first published in 1875.[2] In 1860, the mineral was named in his honor by Gustav Adolph Kenngott.[3]
References[]
- ^ The Mineralogical Record, Inc. Archived 2017-01-16 at the Wayback Machine (biography)
- ^ World Cat Identities Archived 2013-12-25 at archive.today Most widely held works by Félix Pisani
- ^ Mindat Pisanite
Further reading[]
Mineralogical Magazine. 1922. p. 254.
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