Déodat Gratet de Dolomieu, French geologist and academic (died 1801)

Déodat Gratet de Dolomieu

18th-century French geologist, namesake of Dolomite

Dieudonné Sylvain Guy Tancrède de Gratet de Dolomieu usually known as Déodat de Dolomieu was a French geologist. The mineral and the rock dolomite and the largest summital crater on the Piton de la Fournaise volcano were named after him.