André Dumont
André Dumont was born on February 15, 1809. See ranking, bio blurb, and everyone else born that day.
About André Dumont
André Hubert Dumont (15 February 1809 – 28 February 1857) was a Belgian geologist. Dumont was born in Liège, Belgium. His first work was a masterly Mémoire on the geology of the province of Liège published in 1832. A few years later he became a professor of mineralogy and geology and afterwards Rector of the University of Liège. He subsequently turned his attention to the mineralogical and stratigraphical description of the geological formations in Belgium. The names given by him to many subdivisions of the Cretaceous and Tertiary have been adopted. His Mémoire sur les terrains ardennais et…