Victor Mordechai Goldschmidt: Quick Facts

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German mineralogist, physicist, and mathematician

Georgius Agricola

German scholar and scientist

James D. Dana

American geologist and mineralogist

René-Just Haüy

French mineralogist

Charles Mauguin

French mineralogist

Max von Laue

German physicist

Ralph Walter Graystone Wyckoff

American chemist

Georges Friedel

French crystallographer

Edward Daniel Clarke

English mineralogist

Paul Niggli

Swiss mineralogist

Bertram Eugene Warren

American crystallographer

Alfred Lacroix

French mineralogist

Johan Gottlieb Gahn

Swedish mineralogist

Axel Fredrik Cronstedt

Swedish mineralogist and chemist

Jacob Ludwig Carl Grimm

German author, folklorist, and philologist

Paracelsus

German-Swiss physician

Johannes Müller

German physiologist

Athanasius Kircher

German Jesuit priest and scholar

Curt Sachs

German musicologist

Johann Gottfried Walther

German composer