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Born March 12, 1863 • St. Petersburg • Russia
Died January 6, 1945 (aged 81) • Moscow • Soviet Union
Victor Moritz Goldschmidt
Victor Moritz Goldschmidt
Swiss mineralogist
Georgius Agricola.
Georgius Agricola
German scholar and scientist
Dana, James D.
James D. Dana
American geologist and mineralogist
David S. McKay
American astrobiologist and geologist
Norman L. Bowen
Canadian petrologist
Gabriel-Auguste Daubrée
French geochemist
Alexandre Brongniart, plaster medallion by David d'Angers
Alexandre Brongniart
French geologist
Charles Thomas Jackson
American physician and geologist
Harrison Brown
American geochemist
Henslow, lithograph by T.H. Maguire, 1851
John Stevens Henslow
British botanist
Auguste Michel-Lévy
French petrologist
René-Just Haüy
French mineralogist
Martin Heinrich Klaproth, engraving
Martin Heinrich Klaproth
German chemist
Richard Kirwan
Irish chemist
Edward Daniel Clarke
English mineralogist
Paul Niggli
Swiss mineralogist
Lacroix
Alfred Lacroix
French mineralogist
Dieudonné Dolomieu
French geologist
Johan Gottlieb Gahn
Swedish mineralogist
Victor Mordechai Goldschmidt
German crystallographer