WMartine Bertereau also known as Baroness de Beausoleil was a pioneering French woman mining engineer and the first recorded female mineralogist, who traveled extensively in Europe in search of mineral deposits. She surveyed the sites of hundreds of potential mines in France in the service of the French King. Her writings describe the use of divining-rods as well as much useful scientific and practical advice which she derived largely from the Roman engineer Vitruvius's book on architecture, De architectura. They are a unique glimpse into the craft-skills involved in mining in the seventeenth century.
WFrançois Sulpice Beudant, French mineralogist and geologist.
WAndré-Jean-François-Marie Brochant de Villiers was a French mineralogist and geologist.
WAlexandre Brongniart was a French chemist, mineralogist, geologist, paleontologist and zoologist, who collaborated with Georges Cuvier on a study of the geology of the region around Paris. He was the first to classify Tertiary formations and was responsible for determining geology studies as a subject of science by collecting evidence and informations in the 19th century.
WFrédéric Cailliaud was a French naturalist, mineralogist and conchologist. He was born, and died, in Nantes.
WMaurice Armand Chaper was a French geologist and mining engineer.
WPierre Louis Antoine Cordier was a French geologist and mineralogist, and a founder of the French Geological Society. He was professor of geology at the Muséum national d'histoire naturelle in Paris from 1819 to 1861, and was responsible for the development of the geological gallery in the museum.
WPatrick Cordier is a mineralogist who uses experimental and numerical approaches to study the plasticity of geological materials. He has authored or co-authored over 200 articles in international scientific journals. He received the Dana Medal from the Mineralogical Society of America in 2016, and is currently a chief editor of the European Journal of Mineralogy. and a member ofInstitut Universitaire de France.
WAugustin Alexis Damour was a French mineralogist who was also interested in prehistory.
WLouis-Jean-Marie Daubenton was a French naturalist and contributor to the Encyclopédie ou Dictionnaire raisonné des sciences, des arts et des métiers.
WGeorges Deicha was a geologist and mineralogist, known for his pioneering work on fluid inclusions. Georgеs Deicha was a student in Paris at the Sorbonne where he started to investigate the crystallization of gypsum in the Paris basin. He wrote his first doctoral thesis on this topic and on the study and interpretation of primary fluid inclusions in minerals and rocks, his specialty, which was then very little developed.
WJean-Claude Delamétherie was a French mineralogist, geologist and paleontologist.
WAchille Ernest Oscar Joseph Delesse was a French geologist and mineralogist.
WAlfred Louis Olivier Legrand Des Cloizeaux was a French mineralogist.
WCharles Friedel was a French chemist and mineralogist.
WGeorges Friedel was a French mineralogist and crystallographer.
WJean-Étienne Guettard, French naturalist and mineralogist, was born at Étampes, near Paris.
WPaul Gabriel Hautefeuille was a French mineralogist and chemist.
WRené Just Haüy FRS MWS FRSE was a French priest and mineralogist, commonly styled the Abbé Haüy after he was made an honorary canon of Notre Dame. Due to his innovative work on crystal structure and his four-volume Traité de Minéralogie (1801), he is often referred to as the "Father of Modern Crystallography". During the French revolution he also helped to establish the metric system.
WAntoine François Alfred Lacroix was a French mineralogist and geologist. He was born in Mâcon, Saône-et-Loire.
WAndré Laugier was a French chemist, pharmacist and mineralogist. He was a cousin to famed chemist Antoine François Fourcroy and the father of astronomer Paul Auguste Ernest Laugier (1812–1872).
WStanislas-Étienne Meunier was a French geologist born in Paris.
WOurs-Pierre-Armand Petit-Dufrénoy was a French geologist and mineralogist.
WFélix Pisani was a French chemist and mineralogist.
WJean-Baptiste Louis Romé de l'Isle was a French mineralogist, considered one of the creators of modern crystallography.