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Place of Birth: Constantinople
About Félix Pisani
- Félix Pisani (28 April 1831, Constantinople – 7 November 1920, Paris) was a French chemist and mineralogist. He was born in Istanbul, where his Venetian father worked in the Russian diplomatic service.
- Beginning in 1854, he studied chemistry in Paris at a private school run by Charles Frédéric Gerhardt (1816–1856). Best known as a dealer in minerals and other geological materials, Pisani maintained a private laboratory on the Rue de Furstenberg in Paris, from where he conducted private lectures and performed consultant work.
- His laboratory was a popular meeting place of local mineralogists until the creation of the Société minéralogique de France in 1878, of which Pisani was a founding member.His primary written work was Traité élémentaire de minéralogie ("Elementary treatise of mineralogy"), first published in 1875.
- In 1860, the mineral pisanite was named in his honor by Gustav Adolph Kenngott.
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