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Gustav Tschermak

1836–1927

German mineralogist. Studied at the Faculty of Philosophy, University of Vienna, from 1856. Received his doctorate from the University of Tübingen, 1860. Privat-dozent, chemistry and mineralogy, University of Vienna, 1862; associate professor of petrography, 1868; professor of mineralogy and petrography, 1873. Second assistant curator of the imperial mineralogical collection, 1862; director, 1868–77. Worked most notably on feldspar and meteorites. Retired and was ennobled, 1906.

Source

DSB.

Bibliography

DSB: Dictionary of scientific biography. Edited by Charles Coulston Gillispie and Frederic L. Holmes. 18 vols. including index and supplements. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons. 1970–90.

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