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Nicolas-Théodore de Saussure was born into a wealthy, aristocratic, Genevan family, many of whose members were accomplished in the natural sciences, including botany. [2] He was the second child of Horace-Bénédict de Saussure (1740–1799), who was an eminent geologist, meteorologist, physicist and Alpine explorer, and Albertine-Amélie ...
Publication in Paris of Nicolas-Théodore de Saussure's collected papers Recherches chimiques sur la végétation, outlining the basic reaction of photosynthesis. Publication in London of Maria Elizabetha Jacson's Botanical Lectures by a Lady.
Saussure, de Saussure, or DeSaussure is a surname of French origin. Notable individuals with this surname include: Albertine Necker de Saussure (1766–1841), Swiss writer, educationalist, and advocate of education for women, daughter of Horace-Bénédict, and sister of Nicolas-Théodore; César-François de Saussure (1705–1783), Swiss travel ...
The De Saussure family is a family from the Geneva patriciate of Huguenot origins hailing from Lorraine, France but being settled in Switzerland since 1556. An American branch was established in South Carolina in the 18th century by Henri de Saussure; among his descendants were Chancellor Henry William de Saussure and US Senator William F. De Saussure.
Horace-Bénédict de Saussure, Nicolas-Théodore de Saussure, Jean-Marie Couttet, Jean-Baptiste Erin, and five other guides [16] ca. 1795: Großes Wiesbachhorn: 3564: Alps: Three brothers named Zorner [20] 25 Aug 1799: Kleinglockner: 3770: Alps: four guides from Heiligenblut (including "the Glokners", often nicknamed Martin and Sepp "Klotz ...
Senebier was a close friend of noted Genevan geologist and meteorologist Horace-Bénédict de Saussure and was instrumental in the education of Horace-Bénédict's son Nicolas-Théodore de Saussure. Senebier trained the young man in Lavoisier's system of chemistry, which Nicolas-Théodore later applied in important plant-nutrition studies of ...
Half-title of Volume 1. Prodromus Systematis Naturalis Regni Vegetabilis (1824–1873), [1] also known by its standard botanical abbreviation Prodr. (DC.), is a 17-volume treatise on botany initiated by Augustin Pyramus de Candolle.
Nicholas Saunderson: 1718-11-06: January 1682 – 19 April 1739 Horace Benedict de Saussure: 1788-04-03: 17 February 1740 – 22 January 1799 François Boissier de Sauvages de Lacroix: 1749-05-25: 12 May 1706 – ? 19 February 1767 Thomas Savery: 1706-02-13: c. 1650 – May 1715 George Savile, 1st Marquess of Halifax: 1675-11-30: 11 November ...