Lucien Cayeux, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Lucien Cayeux

French geologist

Date of Birth: 26-Mar-1864

Place of Birth: Semousies, Hauts-de-France, France

Date of Death: 01-Nov-1944

Profession: professor, geologist, cartographer, petrographer

Nationality: France

Zodiac Sign: Aries

Lucien Cayeux (16 March 1864–1 November 1944) was a French sedimentary petrographer. In 1902, he joined the l'Ecole des Mines and become a professor of geology.
In 1912, he was named as professor of geology at the Collège de France.
He was admitted to the Académie des Sciences in 1928. He is noted for his study of sediments with the polarizing microscope, and was one of the pioneers in this field. The wrinkle ridge Dorsum Cayeux on the moon is named after him.