GEOLOGIST

Alfred Lacroix

1863 - 1948

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Antoine François Alfred Lacroix (4 February 1863 – 12 March 1948), known as Alfred Lacroix, was a French mineralogist and geologist. He was born in Mâcon, Saône-et-Loire. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Alfred Lacroix is the 46th most popular geologist (up from 47th in 2019), the 3,931st most popular biography from France (up from 4,164th in 2019) and the 6th most popular French Geologist.

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Among GEOLOGISTS

Among geologists, Alfred Lacroix ranks 46 out of 90Before him are Barnum Brown, Adolphe d'Archiac, Gustav Heinrich Ralph von Koenigswald, Joachim Barrande, Hiroo Kanamori, and Lawrence Lambe. After him are Henryk Arctowski, Carl Friedrich Schmidt, Niles Eldredge, Marcel Alexandre Bertrand, William Nicol, and Julius von Haast.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1863, Alfred Lacroix ranks 114Before him are Ljubomir Davidović, Richard F. Outcault, Lawrence Lambe, Álvaro de Figueroa, 1st Count of Romanones, Jāzeps Vītols, and Aleksey Krylov. After him are Mary Whiton Calkins, Hugo Winckler, Blanche Bingley, Aliagha Shikhlinski, Hermann Obrist, and Broncia Koller-Pinell. Among people deceased in 1948, Alfred Lacroix ranks 138Before him are Sigrid Hjertén, Eugen Slutsky, Subhadra Kumari Chauhan, Marcel Brillouin, Jāzeps Vītols, and Alfred Kerr. After him are Emmy Hennings, May Whitty, Elsa Brändström, Ernst Herzfeld, Yellapragada Subbarow, and Alfredo Baldomir.

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In France

Among people born in France, Alfred Lacroix ranks 3,931 out of 6,770Before him are Jean-Pierre Chevènement (1939), Michel Leclère (1946), Yvonne Loriod (1924), Roger Vitrac (1899), Gérard Pirès (1942), and Konrad Pellikan (1478). After him are Amalberga of Maubeuge (601), Marie Anne de Vichy-Chamrond, marquise du Deffand (1697), Nicolas Jenson (1420), Eugène Devéria (1805), Jacqueline de Romilly (1913), and André Lerond (1930).

Among GEOLOGISTS In France

Among geologists born in France, Alfred Lacroix ranks 6Before him are Déodat Gratet de Dolomieu (1750), Léon Teisserenc de Bort (1855), Édouard Lartet (1801), Adolphe d'Archiac (1802), and Joachim Barrande (1799). After him are Marcel Alexandre Bertrand (1847).