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    Nicolas Desmarest (French pronunciation: [nikɔla demaʁɛ]; 16 September 1725 – 20 September 1815) was a French geologist and contributor to the Encyclopédie...
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    Anselme Gaëtan Desmarest (6 March 1784 – 4 June 1838) was a French zoologist and author. He was the son of Nicolas Desmarest and the father of Eugène...
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  • Desmarest is the name of more than one French scientist: Nicolas Desmarest (1725–1815), and his son, Anselme Gaëtan Desmarest (1784–1838) his son, Eugène...
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    the Encyclopédie. In the caption to the plates, French geologist Nicolas Desmarest suggested, for the first time in print, that such structures were...
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  • 1722 – Gabriel Christie, Scottish-Canadian general (d. 1799) 1725 – Nicolas Desmarest, French geologist, zoologist, and author (d. 1815) 1745 – Mikhail...
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  • (b. 1764) 1803 – Robert Emmet, Irish republican (b. 1780) 1815 – Nicolas Desmarest, French geologist and scholar (b. 1725) 1839 – Sir Thomas Hardy, 1st...
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    years envisioned by biblical scholars. Jean-Étienne Guettard and Nicolas Desmarest hiked central France and recorded their observations on some of the...
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    John Singleton Copley, American painter (b. 1738) September 20 – Nicolas Desmarest, French geologist (b. 1725) October 13 – Joachim Murat, French marshal...
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    12 – Guillaume Le Gentil, French astronomer (d. 1792) September 16 Nicolas Desmarest, French geologist (d. 1815) Anna Barbara Gignoux, German industrialist...
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  • Derry (1906–1987), Canadian economic geologist, awarded Logan Medal Nicolas Desmarest (1725–1815), French, pioneer volcanologist Thomas Dibblee (1911–2004)...
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