caption death_date death_place birth_place nationality field work_institutions birth_date image article_title alma_mater
jean-baptiste fournet 8 january 1869 lyon strasbourg france geology , metallurgy university of lyon 15 may 1801 fournet.jpg joseph jean baptiste xavier fournet
 École des mines
joseph jean baptiste xavier fournet

joseph jean baptiste xavier fournet -lrb- may 15 , 1801 -- january 8 , 1869 -rrb- , french geologist and metallurgist , was born at strasbourg .
he was educated at the École des mines at paris , and after considerable experience as a mining engineer he was in 1834 appointed professor of geology at lyon .
he was a man of wide knowledge and extensive research , and wrote memoirs on chemical and mineralogical subjects , on eruptive rocks , on the structure of the jura , the metamorphism of the western alps , on the formation of oolitic limestones , on kaolinization and on metalliferous veins .
on metallurgical subjects also he was an acknowledged authority ; and he published observations on the order of sulphurability of metals -lrb- loi de fournet -rrb- .
he died at lyon .
his chief publications were : '' Études sur les dépôts métallifères '' -lrb- paris , 1834 -rrb- ; `` histoire de la dolomie '' -lrb- lyon , 1847 -rrb- ; `` de l'extension des terrains houillers '' -lrb- 1855 -rrb- ; and `` géologie lyonnaise '' -lrb- lyon , 1861 -rrb- .
