Sainte-Claire Deville, Charles Joseph

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Born Feb. 26, 1814, on St. Thomas, Virgin Islands; died Oct. 10, 1876, in Paris. French geologist and meteorologist. Member of the Académie des Sciences (1857). Professor at the Collège de France (1875).

Sainte-Claire Deville’s principal works dealt with the geology of the Antilles, Tenerife in the Canary Islands, and Fogo in the Cape Verde Islands (1847), as well as with the modern eruptions of Stromboli (1858) and the major meteorological phenomena on the Antilles (1861). He studied the chemical composition of certain minerals and rocks. In 1872, Sainte-Claire Deville became director of a French meteorological observatory.

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