Harry Rosenbusch
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Harry Rosenbusch | |
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Born | 24 June 1836 |
Died | 20 January 1914 | (aged 77)
Nationality | German |
Alma mater | Universität Freiburg |
Awards | Wollaston Medal (1903) |
Scientific career | |
Fields | petrography |
Institutions | Heidelberg University |
Thesis | Der Nephelinit vom Katzenbuckel (1869) |
Doctoral advisor | Heinrich Fischer |
Doctoral students | Victor Mordechai Goldschmidt Frederick Eugene Wright |
(Karl) Heinrich/Harry (Ferdinand) Rosenbusch[1] (24 June 1836 – 20 January 1914) was a German petrographer.
Harry Rosenbusch was born in Einbeck. He taught at Heidelberg University (1877-1908), where he founded the Mineralogisches-geologisches Institut. He died, aged 77, in Heidelberg.[2]
Literary works[]
- Mikroskopische Physiographie der petrographisch wichtigen Mineralien, 1873
- Mikroskopische Physiographie der Mineralien und Gesteine, 4 Vols., 1873-1877
- Elemente der Gesteinslehre, 1898
- Mikroskopische Physiographie (4th ed., Stuttgart, 1909, 2 vols.)
References[]
- ^ Also known as Karl Heinrich/Harry Rosenbusch, or H. F. Rosenbusch
- ^ "Obituary. Karl H. F. Rosenbusch". Geological Magazine. 51: 140–141. 1914. doi:10.1017/s0016756800138269.
External links[]
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- Flett, John Smith (1911). Encyclopædia Britannica. 21 (11th ed.). pp. 325–333. — He is mention a number of times in the article specifically: "the more basic minerals precede the less basic; ... is known as Rosenbusch's law" (p. 330). .
- Microscope after Fuess-Rosenbusch introduced as first German petrographic microscope, Berlin approx. 1880
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- 1836 births
- 1914 deaths
- 19th-century German geologists
- People from Einbeck
- Wollaston Medal winners
- Foreign associates of the National Academy of Sciences
- German scientist stubs
- Geologist stubs