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

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

public offices. Théodore de Saussure became the mayor of Geneva, his son Nicolas de Saussure, a politician. Horace-Bénédict de Saussure was probably the most...

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

daughter of Horace-Bénédict, and sister of Nicolas-Théodore César-François de Saussure (1705–1783), Swiss travel writer Éric de Saussure [de] (1925–2007)...

features as crag and tail. The 18th-century Alpine explorer Horace-Bénédict de Saussure coined the term Roches moutonnées in 1786. He saw in these rocks...

Henri Louis Frédéric de Saussure (/soʊˈsjʊər/; French: [də sosyʁ]; 27 November 1829 – 20 February 1905) was a Swiss mineralogist and entomologist specialising...

cookers. The simplest solar cooker is the box cooker first built by Horace de Saussure in 1767. A basic box cooker consists of an insulated container with...

of the first long (300 feet (90 m)) bridges with a flat deck. Horace-Bénédict de Saussure constructs the first known Western solar oven. Joseph Priestley...

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...