Gabriel Delafosse

He was educated locally and at Rheims before joining the École Normal Supérieure and then went to work at the Museum of Natural History from 1816 under René Just Haüy.

After Haüy's death he published posthumously some notes on crystallography and mineralogy in volumes of Traité de minéralogie (1822-1823).

He was an assistant was the chair of mineralogy at the Mineralogy Laboratory of the National Museum of Natural History in Paris, in 1857, then joined the Faculty of Science from 1822, teaching at the École Normale Supérieure from 1826, becoming a professor in 1841 and working until 1876.

In line with his works are those of his student Louis Pasteur on molecular dissymmetry.

[3] A mineral species was dedicated to him by Charles Friedel in 1873, the delafossite, composed of copper and iron oxide.