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René Just Haüy
René Just Haüy FRS MWS FRSE was a French priest and mineralogist, commonly styled the Abbé Haüy after he was made an honorary canon of Notre Dame. Due to his innovative work on crystal structure and his four-volume Traité de Minéralogie (1801), he is often referred to as the "Father of Modern Crystallography". During the French Revolution he also helped to establish the metric system.
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science · French priest and mineralogist (1742–1822) · mineralogist · physicist · crystallographer · chemist · also René Just Haüy, R. J. Haüy, Haüy R J, René-Just Haüy, Haüy
Born 28 February 1743 · Died 3 June 1822 · Q316515
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1822· 2 entries
Died 1822-06-03.
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1818· 1 entry
Awarded Foreign Member of the Royal Society (1818).
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1817· 1 entry
René-Just Haüy was elected an honorary member of the New York Academy of Sciences
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1815· 1 entry
Napoleon promoted Haüy to officer of the Légion d'Honneur
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1803· 1 entry
Haüy became one of the first recipients of the Order of the Légion d'Honneur
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1802· 1 entry
Haüy became a professor of mineralogy at the Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle (National Museum of Natural History)
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1801· 1 entry
Career landmark: president of the French Academy of Sciences (1801–1802).
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1743· 1 entry
Born 1743-02-28.
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