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a Norwegian mineralogist considered (together with Vladimir Vernadsky) to be the founder of modern geochemistry and crystal chemistry, developer of the Goldschmidt Classification of elements.
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Born
27 January 1888 Zürich, Switzerland
Died
20 March 1947 (aged 59) Oslo, Norway
Known for
Geochemistry
Fields
Geochemistry
Alma mater
University of Oslo
Awards
Foreign Member of the Royal Society Elliott Cresson Medal (1903) Wollaston Medal (1944)
Institutions
University of Oslo
adultbasic
Norway
Doctoral advisor
Waldemar C. Brøgger
Doctoral students
Brian Harold Mason, Katharina Boll-Dornberger
era
1800+
Influenced
Alfred Edward Ringwood
Thesis
Die Kontaktmetamorphose im Kristianiagebiet and Geologisch-petrographische Studien im Hochgebirge des südlichen Norwegens (1911)