Eugene Jarosewich (1926–2007) was a chemist in the Department of Mineral Sciences at the Smithsonian Institution

Smithsonian Institution

The Smithsonian Institution is an educational and research institute and associated museum complex, administered and funded by the government of the United States and by funds from its endowment, contributions, and profits from its retail operations, concessions, licensing activities, and magazines...

.http://www.lpi.usra.edu/features/jarosewich/ Gene was known worldwide for his wet chemical analyses of meteorites. Working with specimens from the National Mineral Collection, Gene and his co-workers also developed a set of commonly-used standards for electron microprobe

Electron microprobe

An electron microprobe , also known as an electron probe microanalyzer or electron micro probe analyzer , is an analytical tool used to non-destructively determine the chemical composition of small volumes of solid materials...

 analyses.

The mineral Jarosewichite

Jarosewichite

Jarosewichite is a rare manganese arsenate mineral with formula: Mn2+3Mn3+6. It was first described in Franklin, New Jersey which is its only reported occurrence. Its chemical composition and structure are similar to chlorophoenicite. This mineral is orthorhombic with 2/m2/m2/m point group. Its...

 http://franklin-sterlinghill.com/dunn/ch25/jarosewichite.stm and asteroid

Asteroid

Asteroids are a class of small Solar System bodies in orbit around the Sun. They have also been called planetoids, especially the larger ones...

 4320 Jarosewich

4320 Jarosewich

4320 Jarosewich is a main-belt asteroid discovered on March 1, 1981 by Schelte J. Bus at Siding Spring Observatory in the course of the U.K. Schmidt-Caltech Asteroid Survey. The asteroid is named after Eugene Jarosewich..- External links :*...

http://ssd.jpl.nasa.gov/sbdb.cgi?sstr=4320 are named in his honor.

External links

• Chemical Analyses of Meteorites Article