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Ours-Pierre-Armand Petit-Dufrénoy
1792Sep, 5

Ours-Pierre-Armand Petit-Dufrénoy

Ours-Pierre-Armand Petit-Dufrénoy, French geologist and mineralogist (d. 1857)
Ours-Pierre-Armand Petit-Dufrénoy (5 September 1792 – 20 March 1857) was a French geologist and mineralogist.

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