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Born December 31, 1855 • Prague
Died June 18, 1931 (aged 75) • Vienna • Austria
Subjects Of Study lithology • metamorphic rock • retrograde metamorphism • schist
Georgius Agricola.
Georgius Agricola
German scholar and scientist
James D. Dana
James D. Dana
American geologist and mineralogist
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Norman L. Bowen
Canadian petrologist
Victor Moritz Goldschmidt
Victor Moritz Goldschmidt
Swiss mineralogist
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Vladimir Ivanovich Vernadsky
Russian scientist
Alexandre Brongniart, plaster medallion by David d'Angers
Alexandre Brongniart
French geologist
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Charles Thomas Jackson
American physician and geologist
Henslow, lithograph by T.H. Maguire, 1851
John Stevens Henslow
British botanist
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Auguste Michel-Lévy
French petrologist
Engraved portrait of Rene Just Hauy, French priest and mineralogist, shown from the chest up in formal attire, with his name printed below.
René-Just Haüy
French mineralogist
Martin Heinrich Klaproth, engraving
Martin Heinrich Klaproth
German chemist
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Richard Kirwan
Irish chemist
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Edward Daniel Clarke
English mineralogist
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Paul Niggli
Swiss mineralogist
Lacroix
Alfred Lacroix
French mineralogist
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Dieudonné Dolomieu
French geologist
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Johan Gottlieb Gahn
Swedish mineralogist
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Victor Mordechai Goldschmidt
German crystallographer
Brøgger, Waldemar Christofer
Waldemar Christofer Brøgger
Norwegian geologist
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Jean-Étienne Guettard
French geologist