Horace Bénédict de Saussure (French pronunciation: [ɔʁas benedikt də sosyʁ]; 17 February 1740 – 22 January 1799) was a Genevan geologist, meteorologist...

education for women. Albertine Necker de Saussure was the daughter of the Genevan scientist Horace-Bénédict de Saussure (1740-1799), a noted physicist, geologist...

natural sciences, including botany. He was the second child of Horace-Bénédict de Saussure (1740–1799), who was an eminent geologist, meteorologist, physicist...

public offices. Théodore de Saussure became the mayor of Geneva, his son Nicolas de Saussure, a politician. Horace-Bénédict de Saussure was probably the most...

Henri Louis Frédéric de Saussure (/soʊˈsjʊər/; French: [də sosyʁ]; 27 November 1829 – 20 February 1905) was a Swiss mineralogist and entomologist specialising...

daughter of Horace-Bénédict, and sister of Nicolas-Théodore César-François de Saussure (1705–1783), Swiss travel writer Éric de Saussure [de] (1925–2007)...

features as crag and tail. The 18th-century Alpine explorer Horace-Bénédict de Saussure coined the term Roches moutonnées in 1786. He saw in these rocks...

cookers. The simplest solar cooker is the box cooker first built by Horace de Saussure in 1767. A basic box cooker consists of an insulated container with...

of the first long (300 feet (90 m)) bridges with a flat deck. Horace-Bénédict de Saussure constructs the first known Western solar oven. Joseph Priestley...

tiny craters. It was named after 18th century Genevan geologist Horace-Bénédict de Saussure. He was the professor, and later colleague and friend of Marc-Auguste...

specifically the colour intensity of blue sky. It is attributed to Horace-Bénédict de Saussure and Alexander von Humboldt. It consists of squares of paper dyed...

Henry William de Saussure (August 16, 1763 – March 26, 1839) was an American lawyer, state legislator and jurist from South Carolina who became a political...

The simplest type of solar cooker is the box cooker first built by Horace de Saussure in 1767. A basic box cooker consists of an insulated container with...

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first climbs of the mountain by the Swiss scientific pioneer Horace Bénédict de Saussure. The climb was the second known to reach the top of Mont Blanc...

association with the names of glaciologists grouped in the area after Horace-Bénédict de Saussure (1740–99), Genevan naturalist and physicist, who in 1787 was...

was the student and later colleague and friend of Horace-Bénédict de Saussure (eponym of nearby Saussure crater). By convention these features are identified...

"Geotope", a national site of geological heritage. Genevan scientist Horace Bénédict de Saussure identified the rocks as granite from the Alps in 1779. Jean-André...

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when a series of Genevan scientists such as Jean-André Deluc, Horace Bénédict de Saussure or Marc-Auguste Pictet climbed to the summit to carry out scientific...

broad, called the Mer de Glace above the Montanvert and the Glacier des Bois below it." In 1786 Horace-Bénédict de Saussure published in French a collection...

simulants from true jade. It was named after the Swiss explorer Horace Benedict de Saussure, who discovered it on the slopes of Mont Blanc. "Saussuritization"...

in April. The Saussurea genus are named for alpine scientist Horace Bénédict de Saussure, while the specific epithet obvallata is derived from obvallatus...

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east wall of Monte Rosa and is a popular vantage point. In 1789 Horace-Bénédict de Saussure reached its summit in order to measure the height of Monte Rosa...

meteorologist Horace-Bénédict de Saussure and was instrumental in the education of Horace-Bénédict's son Nicolas-Théodore de Saussure. Senebier trained...

minerals, he met Horace-Bénédict de Saussure, who initiated the race to be the first to ascend Mont Blanc. Gaston Rébuffat wrote "Like Saussure a devotee of...

high-altitude sunlight. De Candolle named the genus after Horace-Bénédict de Saussure (1740-1799) and Nicolas-Théodore de Saussure (1767–1845). A number...

m) in Saint-Gervais-les-Bains Jacques Balmat at the side of Horace-Benedict de Saussure, "The Father of Alpinism", in a monument erected at Chamonix...

trade route since the Roman Era. The Matterhorn was studied by Horace-Bénédict de Saussure in the late eighteenth century, and was followed by other renowned...