93,820 profiles ranked live

Victor Mordechai Goldschmidt

✓ Source-basedrising

German scientist

GermanyAcademicsLived 1853 to 1933 · aged 80
Compare
Fame41.0
Momentum15.2
Languages7
In century#28,843

Victor Mordechai Goldschmidt was a German mineralogist, natural philosopher and art collector. He produced a nine-volume atlas of crystal forms from 1913 to 1923 which was influential in establishing the field of crystallography.

Also inDeutsch

Photos 3

Awards 1

1903Elliott Cresson Medal

Connected to Victor 6

About this person

Victor Mordechai Goldschmidt was a German mineralogist, natural philosopher and art collector. He produced a nine-volume atlas of crystal forms from 1913 to 1923 which was influential in establishing the field of crystallography. He introduced what are now called Goldschmidt symbols Φ and ρ for the gnomonic angles of crystals. In 1933, he was dismissed from his position at the University of Heidelberg due to his Jewish origins and he died shortly afterwards while in exile in Salzburg. His wife Leontine committed suicide when faced with deportation to a concentration camp.

Country
Germany
Category
Academics
Type
Academic
Status
deceased
Dates
Lived 1853 to 1933 · aged 80
Written about in
7 languages

Fame.am measures public visibility signals. It does not measure human value, talent, morality, or credibility.