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Victor Goldschmidt

1888 - 1947

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Victor Moritz Goldschmidt (27 January 1888 – 20 March 1947) was a Norwegian mineralogist considered (together with Vladimir Vernadsky) to be the founder of modern geochemistry and crystal chemistry, developer of the Goldschmidt Classification of elements. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Victor Goldschmidt is the 362nd most popular chemist (down from 327th in 2019), the 246th most popular biography from Switzerland (down from 201st in 2019) and the 10th most popular Swiss Chemist.

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Among CHEMISTS

Among chemists, Victor Goldschmidt ranks 362 out of 602. Before him are Henry Eyring, Jean Charles Galissard de Marignac, Edward Frankland, Lars Fredrik Nilson, Charles Macintosh, and Karl Ernst Claus. After him are Alice Ball, Édouard Herzen, Otto Schott, Peter Waage, Charles Hatchett, and Viktor Meyer.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1888, Victor Goldschmidt ranks 96. Before him are Princess Helena Adelaide of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg, Richard Courant, Jean Wahl, José Félix Estigarribia, Chōjun Miyagi, and Odile Defraye. After him are Paul Ramadier, Léon Scieur, Richard Kohn, Roberto Assagioli, Du Yuesheng, and Jakow Trachtenberg. Among people deceased in 1947, Victor Goldschmidt ranks 94. Before him are Alice Keppel, Osami Nagano, William C. Durant, Bronisław Huberman, Constantin Sănătescu, and Attilio Ferraris. After him are Sidney Webb, 1st Baron Passfield, August Eigruber, Sándor Garbai, Friedrich Wilhelm Kritzinger, August Schmidhuber, and Franz Joseph Emil Fischer.

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In Switzerland

Among people born in Switzerland, Victor Goldschmidt ranks 246 out of 1,015. Before him are Umberto Agnelli (1934), Walther Ritz (1878), François-Alphonse Forel (1841), Stan Wawrinka (1985), Ubol Ratana (1951), and Denis de Rougemont (1906). After him are Paul Wild (1925), Johann Peter Hebel (1760), Rudolf Wolf (1816), Josias Braun-Blanquet (1884), Didier Burkhalter (1960), and Ludwig Senfl (1486).

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Among CHEMISTS In Switzerland

Among chemists born in Switzerland, Victor Goldschmidt ranks 10. Before him are Kurt Wüthrich (1938), Emil Abderhalden (1877), Jacques Dubochet (1942), Germain Henri Hess (1802), Nicolas Théodore de Saussure (1767), and Jean Charles Galissard de Marignac (1817). After him are Jacques-Louis Soret (1827), Albert Eschenmoser (1925), and Marc Delafontaine (1838).

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