Horace Bénédict de Saussure (French pronunciation: [ɔʁas benedikt də sosyʁ]; 17 February 1740 – 22 January 1799) was a Genevan geologist, meteorologist...

first climbs of the mountain by the Swiss scientific pioneer Horace Bénédict de Saussure. The climb was the second known to reach the top of Mont Blanc...

specifically the colour intensity of blue sky. It is attributed to Horace-Bénédict de Saussure and Alexander von Humboldt. It consists of squares of paper dyed...

1755. Later, in the year 1783, Swiss physicist and Geologist Horace Bénédict de Saussure invented the first hygrometer using human hair to measure humidity...

education for women. Albertine Necker de Saussure was the daughter of the Genevan scientist Horace-Bénédict de Saussure (1740-1799), a noted physicist, geologist...

was the student and later colleague and friend of Horace-Bénédict de Saussure (eponym of nearby Saussure crater). By convention these features are identified...

natural sciences, including botany. He was the second child of Horace-Bénédict de Saussure (1740–1799), who was an eminent geologist, meteorologist, physicist...

trade route since the Roman Era. The Matterhorn was studied by Horace-Bénédict de Saussure in the late eighteenth century, and was followed by other renowned...

when a series of Genevan scientists such as Jean-André Deluc, Horace Bénédict de Saussure or Marc-Auguste Pictet climbed to the summit to carry out scientific...

broad, called the Mer de Glace above the Montanvert and the Glacier des Bois below it." In 1786 Horace-Bénédict de Saussure published in French a collection...