Louis-Constant Prévost
1787–1856
French geologist. Studied the geology of France and Austria. Collaborated with Charles Lyell in comparing the Tertiary and Secondary strata on both sides of the English Channel, 1823–4. A founder of the Société géologique de France, 1830; president, 1834, 1839, and 1851. Professor of geology, the Sorbonne, 1831.
Sources
DSB
Sarjeant 1980–96.
Bibliography
DSB: Dictionary of scientific biography. Edited by Charles Coulston Gillispie and Frederic L. Holmes. 18 vols. including index and supplements. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons. 1970–90.
Sarjeant, William A. S. 1980–96. Geologists and the history of geology: an international bibliography. 10 vols. including supplements. London: Macmillan. Malabar, Fla.: Robert E. Krieger Publishing.
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