1. Charles Palache was an American mineralogist and crystallographer.
13 Facts About Charles Palache
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Charles Palache came from the Pallache family of Sephardic Jews.
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Charles Palache's father, James Palache, was born in New York and moved to San Francisco as a merchant.
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Three months later Charles Palache's father, James, was born in New York City.
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Charles Palache mapped geologically the territory of the San Francisco Peninsula and from Berkeley and began to be interested in mineralogy.
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Charles Palache became an instructor in mineralogy, promoted to assistant professor in 1902 and professor in 1910.
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Charles Palache mainly dealt with crystallography, the geometric form of crystals.
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In 1921, Charles Palache served as president of the Mineralogical Society of America and again in 1950 as honorary president.
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Charles Palache was a member of the National Academy of Sciences and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
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Charles Palache was an honorary member of the Mineralogical Society of Great Britain, the New York Academy of Sciences, and the Belgian Geological Society.
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Charles Palache's grandchildren included Judith Palache Gregory, editor of Catholic Worker and executor of the will of Dorothy Day.
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Charles Palache's wife had predeceased him on October 27,1949.
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Charles Palache was co-editor of the Journal of Crystallography and the American Journal of Science.