List of mineralogists
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The following are mineralogists:
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- Stuart Olof AgrellStuart Olof AgrellStuart Olof Agrell was an outstanding optical mineralogist and pioneer collaborator applying the electron microprobe to petrology. His involvement in the Apollo program brought him to the attention of the British media and public.Agrell was born in Ruislip, Middlesex to a Scandinavian father and...
- Georg AgricolaGeorg AgricolaGeorgius Agricola was a German scholar and scientist. Known as "the father of mineralogy", he was born at Glauchau in Saxony. His real name was Georg Pawer; Agricola is the Latinised version of his name, Pawer meaning "farmer"...
(1494–1555) - Thomas AllanThomas AllanThe mineralogist Thomas Allan was born in Edinburgh, Scotland, on 17 July 1777 to a family of Scottish merchants and bankers. He took up banking for his profession, but he is remembered today for his contributions to mineral science...
(1777–1833) - José Bonifácio de Andrade e SilvaJosé Bonifácio de Andrade e SilvaJosé Bonifácio de Andrada e Silva , was a Brazilian statesman, naturalist, professor and poet, born in Santos, São Paulo, then part of the Portuguese Empire. He was one of the most important mentors of Brazilian independence, and his actions were decisive for the success of Emperor Pedro I...
(1763–1838) - F. Samime Artüz (1925–1982)
- H. G. Ansel
- Daniel Atencio
- Henri Agrinier (1928–1971)
- Charles Alfred Anderson (1902–1990 )
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- Marcel Alexandre BertrandMarcel Alexandre BertrandMarcel Alexandre Bertrand was a French geologist who was born in Paris. He was a student at the École Polytechnique, and beginning in 1869 he attended the Ecole des Mines de Paris. Beginning in 1877 he performed geological mapping studies of Provence, Jura Mountains and the Alps...
(1847–1907) - Valère Billiet (1903–1945)
- W. D. Birch
- Norbet Blaton (B.1945)
- Anselmus de BoodtAnselmus de BoodtAnselmus de Boodt was a Belgian mineralogist and physician from the city of Brugge during the European Renaissance. Along with the "Father of Mineralogy", the German known by his nom de plume Georgius Agricola, Anselmus is responsible for establishing the modern geological earth science study of...
(1550–1632) - Ignaz von Born (1742–1791)
- Nikolay S. Bortnikov
- A. J. M. Brochant de VilliersAndré-Jean-François-Marie Brochant de VilliersAndré-Jean-François-Marie Brochant de Villiers was a French mineralogist and geologist.He was born at the Château de Villiers, near Mantes-la-Ville. After studying at the École Polytechnique, Paris, he was in 1794 the first pupil admitted to the École des Mines...
(1772–1840) - Waldemar Christofer Brøgger
- Henry James BrookeHenry James BrookeHenry James Brooke , was an English crystallographer.Brooke was the son of a broadcloth manufacturer, born in Exeter on 25 May 1771, studied for the bar, but went into business in the Spanish wool trade, South American mining companies, and the London Life Assurance Association successively. He...
(1771–1857) - Archibald BruceArchibald BruceArchibald Bruce , was a Scottish theological writer.-Life:Bruce was born at Broomhall, Stirlingshire, and, after studying at the University of Glasgow, was ordained, in 1768, minister of the Associate congregation of Whitburn. In 1786 he was appointed professor of divinity by the General Associate...
(1777–1818) - Ernst A. J. Burke
- Peter C. Burns
- Pierre Bariand
- Henri Buttgenbach
- Richard Büttner
- Johannes Martin BijvoetJohannes Martin BijvoetJohannes Martin Bijvoet was a Dutch chemist and crystallographer at the van 't Hoff Laboratory at the University of Utrecht...
(1892–1980) - Larisa Nikolaevna Belova (1923–1998)
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- Louis J. CabriLouis J. CabriLouis Jean-Pierre Cabri is an eminent Canadian scientist in the field of platinum group elements mineralogy with expertise in precious metal mineralogy and base metals at the Canada Centre for Mineral and Energy Technology . First as Research Scientist and later as Principal Scientist...
- Alexandre-Emile Béguyer de ChancourtoisAlexandre-Emile Béguyer de ChancourtoisAlexandre-Emile Béguyer de Chancourtois was a French geologist and mineralogist who was the first to arrange the chemical elements in order of atomic weights, doing so in 1862. De Chancourtois only published his paper, but did not publish his actual graph with the proposed arrangement...
- George Y. Chao
- Curzo Cipriani (B.1927)
- Andrew M. Clark
- José Moacyr Vianna Coutinho (B.1924)
- Alan J. Criddle
- Fabien Cesbron
- Jiry Cejka (B. 1929)
- Andrei Andreevich Chernikov (B. 1927)
- Hubert CurienHubert CurienHubert Curien was a French physicist and a key figure in European science politics, as the President of CERN , the first chairman of the European Space Agency , and second President of the Academia Europæa and a President of Fondation de France.-Biography:Born in Cornimont, Vosges in Lorraine,...
(1924–2005) - Francis Coune (?-?)
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- James Dwight DanaJames Dwight DanaJames Dwight Dana was an American geologist, mineralogist and zoologist. He made pioneering studies of mountain-building, volcanic activity, and the origin and structure of continents and oceans around the world.-Early life and career:...
- Alfred Des CloizeauxAlfred Des CloizeauxAlfred Louis Olivier Legrand Des Cloizeaux was a French mineralogist.Des Cloizeaux was born at Beauvais, in the department of Oise. He studied with Jean-Baptiste Biot at the Collège de France. He became professor of mineralogy at the École Normale Supérieure and afterwards at the Muséum National...
(1817–1897) - Gabor Dessau (1907–1983)
- Armand Petit-DufrénoyOurs-Pierre-Armand Petit-DufrénoyOurs-Pierre-Armand Petit-Dufrénoy was a French geologist and mineralogist.He was born at Sevran, in the département of Seine-et-Oise. After leaving the Imperial Lyceum in 1811, he studied until 1813 at the École Polytechnique, and then entered the Corps des Mines...
(1792–1857) - Pete J. Dunn
- Michel Deliens (B.1939)
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- Thomas EglestonThomas EglestonThomas Egleston was an American engineer who helped found Columbia University's School of Mines, now the Fu Foundation School of Engineering and Applied Science. Throughout his lifetime, Egleston published numerous lectures and books on metallurgy...
(1832–1897) - George Letchworth English (1864–1944)
- T. Scott Ercit (1957-)
- Andreas Ertl (1965-)
- Jens EsmarkJens EsmarkJens Esmark was a Danish-Norwegian professor of mineralogy who contributed to many of the initial discoveries and conceptual analyses of glaciers, specifically the concept that glaciers had covered larger areas in the past....
(1763–1839)
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- Walter Frederick FerrierWalter Frederick FerrierWalter Frederick Ferrier was a Canadian geologist and mining engineer.He graduated from McGill University’s school of mining engineering. He was a tireless mineral collector and was known for walking straight into mining offices to request specimens. Consequently, he created large collections of...
(1865–1950) - Aleksandr Evgen’evich Fersman (1883–1945)
- Michael Fleischer
- A. E. Foote
- Clifford Frondel
- François Fontane (B.1942)
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- Robert I. Gait
- Robert A. Gault
- Herman Goethals
- Johann Wolfgang von GoetheJohann Wolfgang von GoetheJohann Wolfgang von Goethe was a German writer, pictorial artist, biologist, theoretical physicist, and polymath. He is considered the supreme genius of modern German literature. His works span the fields of poetry, drama, prose, philosophy, and science. His Faust has been called the greatest long...
- Julian Royce GoldsmithJulian GoldsmithJulian Royce Goldsmith was a mineralogist and geochemist at the University of Chicago . Goldsmith, along with colleague Fritz Laves, first defined the crystallographic polymorphism of alkali feldspar . Goldsmith also experimented on the temperature dependence of the solid solution between calcite...
(1918–1999) - Samuel G. Gordon
- Carlo M. Gramaccioli (B. 1935)
- James GregoryJames Gregory (mineralogist)James Reynolds Gregory was a noted 19th century British mineralogist. He founded a mineral specimen business in 1858 which is today known as Gregory, Bottley & Lloyd. Gregory's company had a reputation as one of the best in the business providing mineral samples for scientists as well as private...
- Joel D. Grice
- Claude Guillemin (1923–1994)
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- Johann Friedrich Ludwig HausmannJohann Friedrich Ludwig HausmannJohann Friedrich Ludwig Hausmann was a German mineralogist.-Biography:He was born in Hanover and educated in Göttingen, where he obtained a Ph.D...
(1782–1859) - René Just HaüyRené Just HaüyRené Just Haüy – 3 June 1822 in Paris) was a French mineralogist, commonly styled the Abbé Haüy after he was made an honorary canon of Notre Dame. He is often referred to as the "Father of Modern Crystallography." -Biography:...
(1743–1822) - Frank C. Hawthorne
- Robert Herzenberg (1885–1955)
- Maxwell Hutchison Hey
- Carl Hintze (1851–1916)
- Donald D. Hogarth
- Warren D. HuffWarren D. HuffWarren D. Huff, Professor of Geology at the University of Cincinnati . He specializes in clay mineralogy, researching the remnants of ancient volcanic eruptions....
- Alexander von HumboldtAlexander von HumboldtFriedrich Wilhelm Heinrich Alexander Freiherr von Humboldt was a German naturalist and explorer, and the younger brother of the Prussian minister, philosopher and linguist Wilhelm von Humboldt...
- Colin Osborne Hutton (1910–1971)
- Arthur Francis Hallimond (1890–1968)
- Eberhardt William Heinrich (1918–1991)
- C. Osborne Hutton (1910–1971)
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- Anthony R. Kampf
- Alexander Petrovich Karpinsky, (1846–1936)
- Pavel M. Kartashov
- Sven Karup-Møller
- Akira Kato
- Gustav Adolph KenngottGustav Adolph KenngottGustav Adolph Kenngott was a German mineralogist.He was born at Breslau. After being employed in the Hofmineralien-Cabinett at...
- A. P. Khomyakov
- Wolfgang Franz von KobellWolfgang Franz von KobellWolfgang Xavier Franz Baron von Kobell was a German mineralogist and writer of short stories and poems in Bavarian dialect.-Biography:He was born in Munich, Bavaria and died there...
(1803–1882) - George Frederick KunzGeorge Frederick KunzGeorge Frederick Kunz was an American mineralogist and mineral collector.- Overview :Kunz was born in New York City, USA, and began an interest in minerals at a very young age. By his teens, he had amassed a collection of over four thousand items, which he sold for four hundred dollars to the...
(1856–1932) - Nikolai Semenovich KurnakovNikolai Semenovich Kurnakov-Biography:Kurnakov was born in Nolinsk, Kirov Oblast. He attended a high school at Nizhny Novgorod and later studied at the mining institute in St. Petersburg. He published his first paper on alum crystallization and sodium thioantimoniate in 1882. In the same year he graduated as a mining engineer...
(1860–1941) - Yu. L. Kapustin (1933–2002)
- Franz Waldemar Kirchheimer (B. 1911)
- Alexander A. Kukharenko (1914–1993)
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- Alfred Lacroix, (1863–1948 )
- B. E. Leake
- Li ShizhenLi ShizhenLi Shizhen , courtesy name Dongbi , was one of the greatest Chinese herbologists and acupuncturists in Chinese history. His major contribution to medicine was his 27-year work, which is found in his epic book the Bencao Gangmu...
(1518–1593) - Carl von LinnéCarolus LinnaeusCarl Linnaeus , also known after his ennoblement as , was a Swedish botanist, physician, and zoologist, who laid the foundations for the modern scheme of binomial nomenclature. He is known as the father of modern taxonomy, and is also considered one of the fathers of modern ecology...
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- Joseph A. Mandarino (1929–2007)
- Robert F. Martin
- John MaweJohn MaweJohn Mawe was a British mineralogist who became well known for his practical approach to the discipline.-Biography:Mawe was born in Derby in 1764 to Samuel Maw. His mother died when he was ten and he was raised by his father's second wife, Francis . In early life he appears to have spent fifteen...
- Andy M. McDonald
- Stefano Merlino
- Auguste Michel-LévyAuguste Michel-LévyAuguste Michel-Lévy was a French geologist. He was born in Paris.He became inspector-general of mines, and director of the Geological Survey of France. He was distinguished for his researches on extrusive rocks, their microscopic structure and origin; and he employed the polarizing microscope...
- Yves Moëlo
- Friedrich MohsFriedrich MohsCarl Friedrich Christian Mohs was a German geologist/mineralogist.- Career :Mohs, born in Gernrode, Germany, studied chemistry, mathematics and physics at the University of Halle and also studied at the Mining Academy in Freiberg, Saxony...
- Louis Moyd
- George H. Myer
- Jules Moreau (B. 1931)
- Annibale Mottana (B. 1940)
- Vyacheslav Gavrilovich Melkov (B. 1911 )
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- Ernie H. Nickel
- Anthony Nikischer
- Per Nysten
- George Lorenzo NoyesGeorge Lorenzo NoyesGeorge “Shavey” Lorenzo Noyes was an American mineralogist, naturalist, development critic, writer and landscape artist.-Biography:Noyes was born in Norway, Maine, and was the son of Amos Oscar Noyes and Anna Chase Noyes. Since A...
(1863–1945) - Radim Novacek (1905–1942)
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- Charles Palache, (1869–1954)
- Arthur Leonard Parsons (1873–1957)
- Maurice Oswald Peeters (b. 1945)
- Igor Pekov
- Ole V. Petersen
- William Phillips (mineralogist) (1775–1829)
- Louis Valentine Pirsson (1860–1919)
- M. E. Pisani
- PlinyPliny the ElderGaius Plinius Secundus , better known as Pliny the Elder, was a Roman author, naturalist, and natural philosopher, as well as naval and army commander of the early Roman Empire, and personal friend of the emperor Vespasian...
- Vladislav Olegovich Polyakov (1950–1993),
- Frederick Harvey Pough
- Jean Protas (1932– )
- Arthur L. Parsons (1873–1957)
- Carlo PerrierCarlo PerrierCarlo Perrier was an Italian mineralogist who did extensive research on the element technetium in 1936. He discovered the element along with his colleague, Emilio Segrè , in 1937....
(1886–1948) - Paul Piret (1932–1999)
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- Paul RamdohrPaul RamdohrPaul Ramdohr, also Paul A. Ramdohr , was a German mineralogist, ore deposit-researcher and a pioneer of ore microscopy.- Life :...
, (1890–1985) - K. F. Rammelsberg, (1813–1899).
- Lewis Stephen Ramsdell (1895–1975)
- Andy C. Roberts
- Willard Lincoln Roberts (1923–1987)
- George W. Robinson
- Gustav RoseGustav RoseGustav Rose was a German mineralogist who was a native of Berlin. He was a brother of mineralogist Heinrich Rose , the son of pharmacologist Valentin Rose , and the father of noted surgeon Edmund Rose and the classicist Valentin Rose.He was a graduate of the University of Berlin, where he was a...
, (1798–1873) - George R. RossmanGeorge R. RossmanGeorge R. Rossman is the Eleanor and John R. McMillan Professor of Mineralogy at the California Institute of Technology. He studies Mineral spectroscopy, water and hydroxide in nominally anhydrous solids,...
, (1944-)
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- Ann P. Sabina
- Frank Sanborn
- Waldemar T. Schaller
- Eduardo Schmitter Villada (1904–1982)
- Quintino SellaQuintino SellaQuintino Sella was an Italian statesman and financier.-Biography:Sella was born at Sella di Mosso, in the Province of Biella....
(1827–1884) - Henri Hureau de SénarmontHenri Hureau de SénarmontHenri Hureau de Sénarmont was a French mineralogist and physician. He was born at Brou, Eure-et-Loir. In the course of his career, he became engineer-in-chief of mines, and professor of mineralogy and director of studies at the École des Mines at Paris.Sénarmont was distinguished for his research...
(1808–1862) - Shen KuoShen KuoShen Kuo or Shen Gua , style name Cunzhong and pseudonym Mengqi Weng , was a polymathic Chinese scientist and statesman of the Song Dynasty...
(1031–1095) - Maxwell Naylor Short (1889–1952)
- Benjamin SillimanBenjamin SillimanBenjamin Silliman was an American chemist, one of the first American professors of science , and the first to distill petroleum.-Early life:...
(1779–1864) - Harold Robert SteacyHarold Robert SteacyHarold Robert Steacy, a mineralogist, was the curator of the Canadian National Mineral Collection at the Geological Survey of Canada in Ottawa. The mineral Steacyite is named for him.-Literature cited:...
(b. 1923) - Hugo Strunz
- Su SongSu SongSu Song was a renowned Chinese polymath who specialized himself as a statesman, astronomer, cartographer, horologist, pharmacologist, mineralogist, zoologist, botanist, mechanical and architectural engineer, poet, antiquarian, and ambassador of the Song Dynasty .Su Song was the engineer of a...
(1020–1101) - Eugen Friedrich Stumpfl
- B. Darko Sturman
- Albrecht Schrauf (1837–1897)
- Achille Salée (1883–1932
- Alfred Schoep (1881–1966 )
- Vladimír Šrein (B. 1953)
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- E. Tarkian
- Gustav Tschermak (1836–1927)
- Rudy Warren Tschernich (1945-)
- Ian M. Threadgold (B. 1929)
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- Charles-Louis-Joseph-Xavier de la Vallée-PoussinCharles-Louis-Joseph-Xavier de la Vallée-PoussinCharles-Louis-Joseph-Xavier de la Vallée-Poussin was a Belgian geologist and mineralogist. His son was the mathematician Charles Jean de la Vallée-Poussin.-Academic career:...
(1827–1903) - Jerry van Velthuizen (1950–2002)
- Renaud Vochten
- Maurice Van Meerssche (1923–1990)
- Adrien Vandendriessche (1914–1940)
- L. van Wambeke
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- Kurt Walenta
- F. Wallerant
- Martin Websky, (1824–1886)
- Abraham Gottlob WernerAbraham Gottlob WernerAbraham Gottlob Werner , was a German geologist who set out an early theory about the stratification of the Earth's crust and coined the word Neptunism...
(1750–1817) - William Hyde WollastonWilliam Hyde WollastonWilliam Hyde Wollaston FRS was an English chemist and physicist who is famous for discovering two chemical elements and for developing a way to process platinum ore.-Biography:...
(1766–1828) - Franz Xavier Freiherr von Wulfen (1728-1805)
- Alice Mary Dowse Weeks (1909–1988)
- J.F. Widenmann (1764–1798)
- J. Wyart (1902–1992)
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- Franz Xaver Maximillian Zippe (1791–1863)
- Gustav Anton Zeuner (1828–1907)
- Ferdinand ZirkelFerdinand ZirkelFerdinand Zirkel was a German geologist and petrographer.-Biography:He was born in Bonn. He was educated in his native town, and graduated Ph.D. at the University of Bonn in 1861. His training and initial interest was in mining...
(1838–1912) - Tibor Zoltai (1926–2003)