Pierre Jean Edouard (Edouard) Desor (1811–82)

German-born geologist. Secretary and assistant to Louis Agassiz in Neuchâtel from 1837. Joined Agassiz in America in 1848. Returned to Switzerland in 1852. Professor of geology at Neuchâtel. Founder and first president of the Société d’histoire de Neuchâtel, 1866. President of the International Congress of Anthropology and Prehistoric Archaeology, 1866. Presided over the council of the Academy of Neuchâtel. Member of the Commission for the Geological Map of Switzerland. Involved in both regional and national government.