Armand Lévy (mineralogist)
Armand Lévy (14 November 1795 – 29 July 1841) was a French mathematician and mineralogist.[1]
Life
Armand Lévy studied mathematics, passing his agrégation in 1816. He settled in London where in 1820 he met a mineral dealer, Henry Heuland, who asked him to categorise his collection. In 1827, Lévy went to Belgium to supervise the printing of the resulting book. He then became a professor at the University of Liège. He later returned to France and taught mathematics at the École Normale Supérieure in Paris.
He died of a ruptured aneurysm at the age of 45.[1]
Legacy
Armand Lévy described many mineral species,[1] such as babingtonite, beudantite, brochantite, brookite, forsterite, phillipsite, roselite and willemite.[2] Lévyne was named after him.[3]
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