Félix Pisani

Félix Pisani (28 April 1831 in Constantinople – 7 November 1920 in Paris) was a French chemist and mineralogist.

He was born in Istanbul, where his Venetian father worked in the Russian diplomatic service. Beginning in 1854, he studied chemistry in Paris at a private school run by Charles Frédéric Gerhardt (1816–1856).

Best known as a dealer in minerals and other geological materials, Pisani maintained a private laboratory on the Rue de Furstenberg in Paris, from where he conducted private lectures and performed consultant work. His laboratory was a popular meeting place of local mineralogists until the creation of the Société minéralogique de France in 1878, of which Pisani was a founding member.^[1]

His primary written work was Traité élémentaire de minéralogie ("Elementary treatise of mineralogy"), first published in 1875.^[2] In 1860, the mineral pisanite was named in his honor by Gustav Adolph Kenngott.^[3]

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  Calcite - Next Macle[1011] - Autograph of Pisani - Egremont Cumberland England
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  Smithsonite - Pisani Autograph - Graphic Mine, New Mexico, USA
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  Cronstedtite- Autograph of Pisani - Cornwall, England