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Harry Rosenbusch

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Harry Rosenbusch
Harry Rosenbusch
Born24 June 1836
Died20 January 1914(1914-01-20) (aged 77)
EducationUniversität Freiburg
AwardsWollaston Medal (1903)
Scientific career
Fieldspetrography
WorkplacesHeidelberg University
Thesis Der Nephelinit vom Katzenbuckel  (1869)
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]

He received the 1903 Wollaston Medal from the Geological Society of London.[3]

Literary works

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  • 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

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  1. Also known as Karl Heinrich/Harry Rosenbusch, or H. F. Rosenbusch
  2. "Obituary. Karl H. F. Rosenbusch". Geological Magazine. 51: 140–141. 1914. doi:10.1017/s0016756800138269.
  3. "The Geological Society of London". The Times. No. 36974. London. 10 January 1903. p. 6.
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  • Flett, John Smith (1911). "Petrology" . Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 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