Description: ____________171-tir79Bronze medal from the Paris Mint (cornucopia hallmark from 1880).Struck around 1930.Beautiful old patina.Artist / Grasculptor / sculptor : Aimé Jérémie Delphin OCTOBER (1868-1943).Dimension : 59 mm .Weight : 94 g.Metal : bronze .Mark on the edge : Cornucopia + bronze .Fast and careful shipping.The support is not for sale.Stand is not for sale.Pierre Termier, born in Lyon on July 3, 1859 and died in Grenoble on October 23, 1930, is a French geologist. A specialist in tectonics and structural synthesis of the Alps, he studied the tangential movements of the chain. Pierre Marie Termier prepared for the competitive examination from 1876 to 1878 at Sainte-Geneviève in Versailles and graduated top of the Polytechnique at the age of 21 in 1880, then entered the prestigious Corps des Mines. He quickly became passionate about Earth sciences and especially, from 1879, by the study of the Alpine chain.On August 8, 1894, he succeeded François Ernest Mallard in the Chair of mineralogy and petrography at the School of Mines, after having held the Chair of geology, mineralogy and physics at Saint-Étienne since 1885, where Marcel Bertrand and Auguste Michel-Lévy had noticed it. He carries out geological missions in the Alps, Tunisia, Russia, Morocco...In 1903 he was the first winner of the Geological Society's Prestwich Prize, awarded by Albert de Lapparent.He received an honorary doctorate from the University of Innsbruck.In 1906, the Wilde Prize was awarded to him by the Academy of Sciences. The same year, he carried out research on the Ronchamp mining basin and its potential extension into the Saint-Etienne sub-Vosges coal basin1.In 1909, he entered the mineralogy section at the Academy of Sciences, of which he became president.In 1911, on the death of Auguste Michel-Lévy, he succeeded him as director of the Geological Map service.In 1914, he was appointed Inspector General of Mines.The Albert-Gaudry prize was awarded to him by the Geological Society of France in 1920.Commander of the Legion of Honor on October 6, 1927.He was a faithful friend of Léon Bloy from 1906, the year they met, to 1917, the year of the writer's death. Pierre Termier, a practicing Catholic, was also a Tertiary of Saint-François-d'AssiseTributeTwo educational establishments bear his name: one located in Grenoble (Pierre-Termier Catholic high school, former Bois-Rolland institution), the other located in Lyon (school, college,Pierre Termier, born in Lyon on July 3, 1859 and died in Grenoble on October 23, 1930, is a French geologist. A specialist in tectonics and structural synthesis of the Alps, he studied the tangential movements of the chain. Pierre Marie Termier prepared for the competitive examination from 1876 to 1878 at Sainte-Geneviève in Versailles and graduated top of the Polytechnique at the age of 21 in 1880, then entered the prestigious Corps des Mines. He quickly became passionate about Earth sciences and especially, from 1879, by the study of the Alpine chain. On August 8, 1894, he succeeded François Ernest Mallard in the Chair of mineralogy and petrography at the School of Mines, after having held the Chair of geology, mineralogy and physics at Saint-Étienne since 1885, where Marcel Bertrand and
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