Gabriel Auguste Daubrée

Gabriel Auguste Daubrée MIF FRS FRSE (25 June 181429 May 1896) was a French geologist, best known for applying experimental methods to structural geology. he was appointed professor of geology at the Museum d'Histoire Naturelle in Paris and was also elected member of the French Academy of Sciences. In the following year he became professor of mineralogy at the École des Mines, and in 1872 director of that school. In 1878 Daubrée was elected vice-president and in 1879 president of the French Academy of Sciences. In 1881 he was promoted to Grand Officer of the French Legion of Honour.

He died in Paris on 29 May 1896. a bismuth oxide (Daubréeite) and a crater on the Moon (Daubrée crater) were named after him.