13 Facts About Gustav Rose

Prof Gustavus Rose FRSFor HFRSE was a German mineralogist who was a native of Berlin.

Gustav Rose was President of the German Geological Society from 1863 to 1873.

Gustav Rose was born in Berlin the son of pharmacologist Valentin Rose.

Gustav Rose studied under Swedish physical chemist Jons Jakob Berzelius in Stockholm.

Gustav Rose provided assistance to Mitscherlich's development of the law of isomorphism.

In 1829, with German naturalists Alexander von Humboldt and Christian Gottfried Ehrenberg, Gustav Rose took part in a scientific expedition throughout Imperial Russia.

Gustav Rose made important contributions in the fields of petrology and crystallography, and is credited for pioneering usage of the reflective goniometer in Germany.

Gustav Rose had a particular interest in the relationship between the crystalline form and the physical properties of minerals.

Gustav Rose is credited for developing a mineral system that was a combination of chemistry, isomorphy and morphology.

Gustav Rose conducted studies of quartz, feldspars, granites, and the mineralogical components of trap rock.

Gustav Rose is remembered for research on meteorites and chondrules.

Gustav Rose identified many minerals new to science, including perovskite, named in honor of Russian mineralogist Lev Aleksevich von Perovski.

Gustav Rose was a brother of mineralogist Heinrich Rose and the father of noted surgeon Edmund Rose and the classicist Valentin Rose.