Déodat Gratet de Dolomieu

18th-century French geologist, namesake of Dolomite

Born
1750
Dieudonné Sylvain Guy Tancrède de Gratet de Dolomieu usually known as Déodat de Dolomieu was a French geologist. The mineral and the rock dolomite and the largest summital crater on the Piton de la Fournaise volcano were named after him.

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