Armand Lévy (mineralogist)

Armand Lévy (14 November 1795 – 29 July 1841) was a French mathematician and mineralogist.[1]

Life

Armand Lévy studied mathematics, passing his agrégation in 1816. He settled in London where in 1820 he met a mineral dealer, Henry Heuland, who asked him to categorise his collection. In 1827, Lévy went to Belgium to supervise the printing of the resulting book. He then became a professor at the University of Liège. He later returned to France and taught mathematics at the École Normale Supérieure in Paris.

He died of a ruptured aneurysm at the age of 45.[1]

Legacy

Armand Lévy described many mineral species,[1] such as babingtonite, beudantite, brochantite, brookite, forsterite, phillipsite, roselite and willemite.[2] Lévyne was named after him.[3]

References
  1. Le Cléac'h, Jean-Michel (June 1995). "Bicentenaire de la naissance de Armand Lévy". ABC Mines (in French). 7.
  2. A Dictionary of the Names of Minerals Including Their History and Etymology by Albert Huntington Chester
  3. "Lévyne" (PDF). handbookofmineralogy.org..


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