Goldschmidt, Victor

Goldschmidt, Victor Moritz was born in Zurich, but spent his scientific career in Norway (1888-1947). Like Pauling, he derived rules for ionic radii. 

Patrick M. Bernhagen, Thomas M. Flynn, Victor M. Goldschmidt,... 

Victor M. Goldschmidt, Ph.D., P.E., Professor of Mechanical Engineering, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana (Section 11, Heat-Transfer Equipment)... 

Goldschmidt VM (1929) The Distribution of the Chemical Elements. Proceedings of the Royal Institution of Great Britain 26 73-86, as quoted in Mason B, Victor Moritz Goldschmidt Father of Modern Geochemistry, The Geochemical Society San Antonio TX184 pp. 

Goldschmidt Z, Crammer B (1988) Chem Soc Rev 17 229 Hudlicky T, Kutchan TM, Naqvi SM (1985) Org React 33 247 Dalacker V, Hopf H (1974) Tetrahedron Lett 15 Victor R, Ben-Shoshan R, Sarel S (1973) Tetrahedron Lett 4211 Victor R, Usieli V, Sarel S (1977) J Organomet Chem 129 387... 

Victor Goldschmidt, as pictured on a Norwegian postage stamp issued in 1974. 

The term cosmochemistry apparently derives from the work of Victor Goldschmidt (Fig. 1.6), who is often described as the father of geochemistry. This is yet another crossover and, in truth, Goldschmidt also established cosmochemistry as a discipline. In 1937 he published a cosmic abundance table based on the proportions of elements in meteorites. He used the term cosmic because, like his contemporaries, he believed that meteorites were interstellar matter. Chemist William Harkins (1873-1951) had formulated an earlier (1917) table of elemental abundances - arguably the first cosmochemistry paper, although he did not use that term. As explained in Chapter 3, the term solar system abundance is now preferred over cosmic abundance, although the terms are often used interchangeably. 

Who was Victor Goldschmidt and what role did he play in the development of geochemistry and cosmochemistry ... 

The paper follows some of the lines of development that led from nineteenth-century geochemistry to the first phase of cosmochemistry in the 1930s, when the field was pioneered by Victor Moritz Goldschmidt in particular. The field of... 

Victor Moritz Goldschmidt and the Transition from Geo- to Cosmochemistry 1169 9.4... 

More than anyone else, the Swiss-Norwegian chemist Victor Moritz Goldschmidt revolutionized geochemistry and is today recognized not only as the founding father of modern geochemistry but also as a pioneer of cosmochemistry. [52] Goldschmidt... 

Quoted in P. Kruger, Victor Moritz Goldschmidt (1888-1947) und die Sowjetische Geochemie, Zeitschrift fur angewandte Geologic 29 (1983) 347-355, on 352. 

The best account of Goldschmidt s life and work is B. Mason, Victor Moritz Goldschmidt Father of Modem Geochemistry (San Antonio, Texas, 1992). See also C. E. Tilley, Victor Moritz Goldschmidt, Obituary Notices of Fellows of the Royal Society 6 (1948) 51-66 and Applied Geochemistry 3 (1988) 359-422, a commemorative issue on the centenary of Goldschmidt s birth. 

Quoted from Mason, Victor Moritz Goldschmidt, 101-102. One should keep in mind that Goldschmidt s audience consisted of geologists, not chemists. 

RICHARD L. SHILLING. PATRICK M. BERNHAGEN VICTOR M. GOLDSCHMIDT, PREDRAG S. HRNJAK DAVID JOHNSON. KLAUS D. TIMMERHAUS... 

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