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    Alexandre Brongniart (5 February 1770 – 7 October 1847) was a French chemist, mineralogist, geologist, paleontologist, and zoologist, who collaborated...
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    Alexandre-Théodore Brongniart (French pronunciation: [alɛksɑ̃dʁ teɔdɔʁ bʁɔ̃ɲaʁ]; 15 February 1739 – 6 June 1813) was a prominent French architect. Born...
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    was the son of the geologist Alexandre Brongniart and grandson of the architect, Alexandre-Théodore Brongniart. Brongniart's pioneering work on the relationships...
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  • Brongniart is the surname of a notable French family: Antoine-Louis Brongniart (1742–1804), chemist, younger brother of Alexandre-Théodore Brongniart...
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    century William Smith, Georges Cuvier, Jean d'Omalius d'Halloy, and Alexandre Brongniart pioneered the systematic division of rocks by stratigraphy and fossil...
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    early 19th century. His study of the strata of the Paris basin with Alexandre Brongniart established the basic principles of biostratigraphy. Among his other...
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    after its initial architect, Alexandre-Théodore Brongniart, who died in 1813 prior to its completion. The Palais Brongniart is nowadays used as an events...
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    (1802); it was the Latinisation of the French name Sauriens, coined by Alexandre Brongniart (1800) for an order of reptiles in the classification proposed by...
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    stratigraphy in the early 19th century were by Georges Cuvier and Alexandre Brongniart, who studied the geology of the region around Paris. Variation in...
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    Jura-Kalkstein ('Jura limestone') in 1799. In 1829, the French naturalist Alexandre Brongniart published a book entitled Description of the Terrains that Constitute...
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