Jean Baptiste Armand Louis Léonée Elie de Beaumont
French geologist (1798–1874)
Jean-Baptiste Armand Louis Léonce Élie de Beaumont (25 September 1798 – 21 September 1874) was a French geologist. Among his ideas was that mountains were created in a series of episodes over geological time due to the cooling and shrinking of the earth.2
From Wikipedia’s article on Jean Baptiste Armand Louis Léonée Elie de Beaumont (this version), CC BY-SA 4.0.
Born Sep 25, 1798, died Sep 21, 1874.1
About
He also suggested that there was a pattern in the orientation of the mountain systems of the world which followed a system of five circles meeting at points on the earth that marked the points of a polyhedron.
From Wikipedia’s article on Jean Baptiste Armand Louis Léonée Elie de Beaumont, shared under CC BY-SA 4.0.2
Companies
Early life and education
Career
Occupation: mining engineer, professor, geologist, entomologist, politician.9
- 1869 to 1874President of the Société nationale d'encouragement au bien5
- Since 1868President, Q1105976985
- 1861 to 1868Vice-président du Conseil général des mines5
- 1855President of the Geological Society of France5
- 1853 to 1874Perpetual Secretary5 7
- 1852 to 1870Second Empire senator5 6
- 1850President of the Geological Society of France5
- 1845President of the French Academy of Sciences5
- 1845President of the Geological Society of France5
- 1836President of the Geological Society of France5
- 1835 to 1874Professor5
- 1832 to 1874Professor, Collège de France4
More of their career (3)
- 1832 to 1874Professor5
- Date not recordedInspector general of Mines5
- Date not recordedChair, Société géologique de France8
Personal life
Awards
- 1860Grand Officer of the Legion of Honour16
- 1850Commander of the Legion of Honour16
- 1843Wollaston Medal16 18
- 1840Officer of the Legion of Honour16
- 1839honorary member of the Physics Association (Frankfurt am Main, Germany)16 17
- 1835Foreign Member of the Royal Society16
- 1831Knight of the Legion of Honour16
- Date not recordedFellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences16
- Date not recordedFellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh16
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