Alexandre Brongniart
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Image:Alexandre Brongniart.jpg Alexandre Brongniart (1770 – 1847) was a French chemist, mineralogist, and zoologist, who collaborated with Georges Cuvier. He was the son of the architect Alexandre-Théodore Brongniart and father of the botanist Adolphe Théodore Brongniart.
Born in Paris, he was director of the porcelain works at Sèvres. He introduced a new classification of reptiles and wrote several treatises on mineralogy and the ceramic arts. He also made an extensive study of trilobites and developed fossil markers for dating strata.
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