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Victor Thiollière

Victor Thiollière is a engineering topic covered in the lgStudy science library. This page brings together a partial reference excerpt, illustrations, worked examples, real-world applications and a short study plan, so you can understand Victor Thiollière rather than just read about it. In short: Victor Joseph de l'Isle Thiollière (28 May 1801 – 14 May 1859) was a French civil engineer, geologist and paleoichthyologist. He was born in Saint-Étienne.

Key takeaways

Victor Thiollière belongs to engineering; place it in that map before memorising details.
Learn the definition first, then one example that makes the definition concrete.
Connect Victor Thiollière to a quantity you can measure, compute or draw — that is where exam questions come from.
Reproduce the core statement of Victor Thiollière from memory before moving on to harder problems.

Reference excerpt

Victor Joseph de l'Isle Thiollière (28 May 1801 – 14 May 1859) was a French civil engineer, geologist and paleoichthyologist. He was born in Saint-Étienne. He conducted studies of fossils found in the calcareous limestone at the Cerin quarry, located 80 kilometers east of Lyon, from which, he described numerous paleoichthyological species. He is the taxonomic authority of the genera Holochondrus, Spathobatis, Belemnobatis and Phorcynis. The feather star species Solanocrinites thiollieri was named after him by paleontologist Perceval de Loriol. He died in Lyon. His family donated his collection of fossils to the Muséum de Lyon, comprising 1702 items primarily from the Rhône-Alpes region, with 699 coming from the Cerin deposit (30 holotypes). He is credited with creating the first geological map of the Rhône department, which he presented to the Société d'agriculture de Lyon, an organization that he became a member of in 1848. He was also a member of the Académie des sciences, belles-lettres et arts de Lyon (1848–1859) and the Société linnéenne de Lyon (1850–1858).

Selected works

Sur un nouveau gisement de poissons fossiles, dans le Jura du département de l'Ain, (1850). Seconde Notice sur le gisement et sur les corps organisés fossiles des calcaires lithographiques, dans le Jura du département de l'Ain, (1851). Descriptions des poissons fossiles provenant des gisements coralliens du Jura dans le Bugey, Paris, Editions J.-B. Baillière, 37 p. (1854). — Part 2 later reviewed and annotated by Paul Gervais with the help of Gaston de Saporta, Albert Falsan and Eugène Dumortier, Lyon, Éditions H. Georg, 1873, p. 7-26. Rapport sur un Mémoire de M. Michaud intitulé : "Description des coquilles fossiles découvertes aux environs de Hauterives (Drôme)", et sur le terrain tertiaire où ces coquilles se rencontrent, présenté à la Société impériale d'agriculture, d'histoire naturelle et des arts utiles de Lyon, dans la séance du 15 juin 1855, Lyon, Barret (1855). Sur les travaux de la réunion extraordinaire de la Société géologique à Valence, en septembre 1854, communication faite à la Société... d'agriculture et d'histoire naturelle de Lyon. Lyon, Barret. (1855).

Taxon named in his honor Diaphus thiollierei, Fowler, 1934 the Thiolliere's lanternfish, is a species of lanternfish found in the Indo-Pacific.

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Worked examples

Example 1 — a first encounter with Victor Thiollière

Start with the simplest possible case. Write down what Victor Thiollière claims or describes in one sentence, then invent the smallest concrete situation in which that sentence is true. In engineering, the smallest case is usually a single object, a single equation or a single measurement. Check that every symbol or term in your sentence has a meaning in that case.

Example 2 — changing one variable

Take the situation from Example 1 and change exactly one quantity: double it, halve it, or set it to zero. Predict what should happen to Victor Thiollière before you calculate. Comparing your prediction with the result is the fastest way to find out whether you understand the idea or only the words.

Example 3 — an exam-style question

Typical questions about Victor Thiollière ask you to (a) state it precisely, (b) apply it to given data, and (c) explain a limitation. Practise writing all three answers in under five minutes; the third part is what separates a full-mark answer from an average one.

Applications of Victor Thiollière

In research: Victor Thiollière appears in engineering research whenever the underlying quantities have to be modelled precisely. Papers usually cite it as a starting assumption and then explore where it breaks down.
In technology and industry: Engineering practice reuses Victor Thiollière in design rules, simulations and safety margins. Knowing the idea lets you read a specification sheet and understand why the numbers look the way they do.
In the classroom: Victor Thiollière is common in secondary-school and first-year university syllabi. It links to neighbouring topics 1801 births, 1859 deaths, 19th-century civil engineers, so understanding it makes those chapters shorter.
In everyday life: Look for Victor Thiollière outside the textbook — in sport, cooking, traffic, electronics or the sky above you. An example you found yourself is remembered far longer than one you were given.

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How to study Victor Thiollière in 20 minutes

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Frequently asked questions

What is Victor Thiollière in simple terms?

Victor Joseph de l'Isle Thiollière (28 May 1801 – 14 May 1859) was a French civil engineer, geologist and paleoichthyologist. He was born in Saint-Étienne.

Why does Victor Thiollière matter?

Because it connects several engineering ideas at once: it gives you a definition you can apply, a quantity you can calculate, and a way to check whether a result is plausible.

How should I study Victor Thiollière?

Read the excerpt, restate it from memory, then work through the examples and applications listed on this page. The five-step study plan above takes about twenty minutes.

What does this page cover?

It gives you a compact reference excerpt plus original lgStudy explanations, examples, applications and study material on Victor Thiollière.