Antonio D'Achiardi explained

Antonio D'Achiardi
Birth Date:	28 November 1839
Birth Place:	Pisa, Italy
Death Place:	Pisa, Italy
Parents:	Giuseppe D'Achiardi (father) Virginia Ruschi (mother)
Spouse:	Marianna Camici
Children:	Pietro D'Achiardi
Work Institutions:	University of Pavia University of Pisa
Alma Mater:	University of Pisa
Occupation:	Geologist, mineralogist

Antonio D'Achiardi (28 November 1839, in Pisa – 10 December 1902, in Pisa) was an Italian geologist, paleontologist and mineralogist known for his mineralogical and paleontological studies of Tuscany.^[1] He was the father of the mineralogist, and the artist, Pietro D'Achiardi.^[2]

In 1859 he received his doctorate in sciences from the University of Pisa, afterwards working as an assistant for chemistry (from 1861).^[3] Three months after this appointment, he lost the use of his left eye due to a laboratory accident involving nitric acid. He subsequently abandoned his career in chemistry, and instead devoted his attention to geology and mineralogy, becoming a student of Giuseppe Meneghini.^[4] He later became a professor of geology at Pavia and in 1874 was appointed a professor of mineralogy at the University of Pisa.^[5] In 1881 he established a laboratory of mineralogy at Pisa.

Honors and recognitions

The mineral dachiardite honors his memory.^{[6] [7] [8]} In 1906, his son Giovanni D'Achiardi described and named the mineral after he discovered it in a granitic pegmatite.^{[9] [10] [11]}

A street in Rome is named after him.

Selected works

• Coralli fossili del terreno nummulitico delle Alpi Venete, 1868.
• Sulle Calcarie lenticolare e grossolana di Toscana, 1874.
• Bibliografia mineralogica, geologica e paleontologica della Toscana, 1875.
• Sull'origine dell'acido borico e dei borati, considerazioni ..., 1878.
• I metalli loro minerali e miniere, 1883.
• Guida al corso di mineralogia, 1900.^{[12] [13]}

Notes and References

1. Book: Sarjeant, William A.S. . William_Sarjeant. Geologists and the History of Geology: An International Bibliography from the Origins to 1978 . 1980 . Arno Press . New York . 2 (The Individual Geologists A-K) . registration . 798-799 . Internet Archive.
2. Book: Buonocore, Maria Grazia Branchetti . D'ACHIARDI, Pietro . Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani . https://www.treccani.it/enciclopedia/pietro-d-achiardi_(Dizionario-Biografico)/. 31 . 1985 . it . 28 May 2024.
3. Web site: D'Achiardi, Antonio. The Mineralogical Record. 2016-08-01. https://web.archive.org/web/20160304001031/http://www.minrec.org/libdetail.asp?id=246. 2016-03-04. dead.
4. Web site: D'ACHIARDI, Antonio. Sartori. Franco. 1985. Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani . 31. it. 2016-08-01.
5. Web site: Scientists. Your Mineral Collection. 2016-08-01.
6. Spencer, L. J. . Biographical Notices of Mineralogists Recently Deceased. (Eighth Series.) . Mineralogical Magazine . 28 . 1947 . 189 . 12 June 2024.
7. Web site: dachiardite . Merriam-Webster Dictionary. 30 May 2024.
8. D'Achiardi, Giovanni . 1906 . Zeoliti del filone della speranza presso S. Piero in Campo (Elba) . Atti della Societa Toscana di Scienze Naturali. Processi Verbali . 22 . it. 164.
9. Book: Sartori, Franco . D'ACHIARDI, Giovanni . Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani . 31 . 1985 . it . 27 May 2024.
10. Berman, Harry . Notes on dachiardite . American Mineralogist . 10. 11. 421-428 . 1925 .
11. Web site: Dachiardite-Ca. www.mindat.org. 2016-08-01.
12. Web site: Antonio D'Achiardi. The Online Books Page. 2016-08-01.
13. Web site: Antonio D'Achiardi. idref.fr. fr. 2016-08-01.