Bernard Brunhes was a French geophysicist known for his pioneering work in paleomagnetism, in particular, his 1906 discovery of geomagnetic reversal. The Brunhes-Matuyama reversal is named for him. Brunhes was educated at the École Normale Supérieure in Paris, from which he graduated as an "agrégé" qualified in physics. In November 1900, he was appointed as head of the Puy-de-Dôme Observatory, built on an extinct volcano in the Auvergne region of France, … Wikipedia
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