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).

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.

[1] His primary written work was Traité élémentaire de minéralogie ("Elementary treatise of mineralogy"), first published in 1875.