1. Victor Moritz Goldschmidt was a Norwegian mineralogist considered to be the founder of modern geochemistry and crystal chemistry, developer of the Goldschmidt Classification of elements.
15 Facts About Victor Goldschmidt
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Victor Goldschmidt's father, Heinrich Jacob Goldschmidt, was a physical chemist at the Eidgenossisches Polytechnikum and his mother, Amelie Koehne, was the daughter of a lumber merchant.
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Victor Goldschmidt entered the University of Kristiania in 1906 and studied inorganic and physical chemistry, geology, mineralogy, physics, mathematics, zoology and botany.
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Victor Goldschmidt secured a fellowship for his doctoral studies from the university at the age of 21.
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In 1914 Victor Goldschmidt applied for a professorship in Stockholm and was offered the position.
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In 1929 Victor Goldschmidt was appointed the chair of mineralogy in Gottingen, and he hired Reinhold Mannkopff and Fritz Laves as his assistants.
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On 26 October 1942 Victor Goldschmidt was arrested at the orders of the German occupying powers as part of the persecution of Jews in Norway during World War II.
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Victor Goldschmidt was flown to England on 3 March 1943 by a British intelligence unit, and provided information about technical developments in Norway.
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Victor Goldschmidt participated in discussions about the German use of raw materials and production of heavy water.
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Victor Goldschmidt attended open meetings in Cambridge, Manchester, Sheffield, Edinburgh and Aberdeen and lectured at the British Coal Utilisation Research Association on the presence of rare elements in coal ash.
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Victor Goldschmidt moved from Aberdeen to Rothamsted, where he was popular and nicknamed 'Goldie'.
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Victor Goldschmidt showed that, of the minerals to be found in the hornfels, only certain associations occurred.
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From his data on the hornfels, Victor Goldschmidt deduced a mineralogical phase rule.
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Victor Goldschmidt published this work in the series Geochemische Verteilungsgesetze der Elemente [Geochemical Laws of the Distribution of Elements].
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The majority of Victor Goldschmidt's publications are in German or Norwegian.