Henri Hureau de Sénarmont (6 September 1808 – 30 June 1862) was a French
mineralogist
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and
physicist
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Eure-et-Loir
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in
Paris
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, then furthered his education at the
École des Mines
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. During the course of his career, he became engineer-in-chief of mines, and professor of mineralogy and director of studies at the
École des Mines
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anisotropy
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of heat diffusion in a crystal, and on the artificial formation of minerals. A polarized light retardation compensator known as a " Sénarmont prism polarizer" is named after him, as is senarmontite, a mineral that he described in 1851.
He wrote essays and prepared maps on the
geology
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of
Seine-et-Marne
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and
Seine-et-Oise
Seine-et-Oise () was the former department of France encompassing the western, northern and southern parts of the metropolitan area of Paris.Augustin Fresnel, and endeavored to prepare of an entire edition of Fresnel's works. The project was far enough advanced prior to his death that it could be completed by other authors ("''Oeuvres complètes d'Augustin Fresnel''", 1866–70).Catalog HathiTrust œuvres complètes d'Augustin Fresnel