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Fritz Laves

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German mineralogist and crystallographer (1906-1978)

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Fritz Henning Emil Paul Berndt Laves was a German crystallographer who served as the president of the German Mineralogical Society from 1956 to 1958.

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1971Abraham Gottlob Werner Medal in silver
1969Roebling Medal
honorary member of the German Mineralogical Society

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Fritz Henning Emil Paul Berndt Laves was a German crystallographer who served as the president of the German Mineralogical Society from 1956 to 1958. He is the namesake of Laves phases and the Laves tilings; the Laves graph, a highly-symmetrical three-dimensional crystal structure that he studied, was named after him by H. S. M. Coxeter.

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Germany
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Scientists
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Scientist
Status
deceased
Dates
Lived 1906 to 1978 · aged 72
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