Regis Chauvenet
(1842 – 1920)
President of the Colorado Scientific Society – 1896
President 1896. Honorary member, 1907
- Mining engineer, professor of chemistry and metallurgy at Colorado School of Mines
- Graduate of Washington University, B. S. Harvard, Honorary Doctor of Laws, Harvard University
- Chemist, Missouri Geological Survey; President, Colorado School of Mines
- Consulting Mining engineer
- Author of “Chemical and Metallurgical Calculations” and articles about mineral deposits in Colorado and Texas