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See also:DES CLOIZEAUX, See also:ALFRED See also:- LOUIS
- LOUIS (804–876)
- LOUIS (893–911)
- LOUIS, JOSEPH DOMINIQUE, BARON (1755-1837)
- LOUIS, or LEWIS (from the Frankish Chlodowich, Chlodwig, Latinized as Chlodowius, Lodhuwicus, Lodhuvicus, whence-in the Strassburg oath of 842-0. Fr. Lodhuwigs, then Chlovis, Loys and later Louis, whence Span. Luiz and—through the Angevin kings—Hungarian
LOUIS See also:OLIVIER LEGRAND (1817–1897) , See also:French mineralogist, was See also:born at See also:Beauvais, in the See also:department of See also:Oise, on the 17th of See also:October 1817. He became See also:professor of See also:mineralogy at the Ecole Normale Superieure and afterwards at the Musee d'Histoire Naturelle in See also:Paris. He studied the geysers of See also:Iceland, and wrote also on the See also:classification of some of the eruptive rocks; but his See also:main See also:work consisted in the systematic examination of the crystals of numerous minerals, in researches on their See also:optical properties and on the subject of polarization. He wrote specially on the means of determining the different fe&spars. He has awarded the See also:Wollaston See also:medal by the See also:Geological Society of See also:London in 1886. He died in May 1897. His best-known books are Lecons de cristallographie (1861); See also:Manuel de mineralogie (2 vols., Paris, 1862, 1874 and 1893).
End of Article: DES CLOIZEAUX, ALFRED LOUIS OLIVIER LEGRAND (1817–1897)
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