| Authorised form of name | Hauy; Rene Just (1743 - 1822) |
| Dates | 1743 - 1822 |
| Nationality | French |
| Place of birth | St-Just-en-Chaussee, Oise, France |
| Date of birth | 28 February 1743 |
| Place of death | Paris, France |
| Date of death | 01 or 03 June 1822 |
| Research field | Crystallography |
| Mineralogy |
| Activity | Education:
College of Navarre; Lemoine
Career:
Teacher at Lemoine; discovered the geometric law of crystallisation (1781); imprisoned at the Revolution, but saved by the intercession of E Geoggroy St Hilaire; Professor of Mineralogy, Museum of Natural History (1802); deprived of the post (1814); spent last years in poverty
Memberships:
Academy of Science (1781)
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| Membership category | Foreign Member |
| Date of election | 12/03/1818 |
| Relationships | Of humble parents |
| Source | Sources:
Bulloch's Roll; DSB
Notes:
DSB gives death date as 01 June 1822 |
| Code | NA3462 |
Archives associated with this Fellow
| RefNo | Title | Date |
| EC/1817/33 | Hauy, Rene Just: certificate of election to the Royal Society | |
| CB/1/1/231 | Letter from Claude Louis Berthollet to Charles Blagden | 9 July 1809 |
| IM/001988 | Hauy, Rene Just | nd |
| NLB/59/212 | Copy letter from [William Abbott Herdman,] Foreign Secretary of the Royal Society to Monsieur le. Professor [Francois Antoine Alfred] Lacroix, FRS | 27 July 1920 |
| CB/1/1/214 | Letter from Claude Louis Berthollet to Charles Blagden | 10 April 1784 |