Heinrich Jacob Goldschmidt

Heinrich Jacob Goldschmidt
Born	(1857-04-12)12 April 1857 Prague, Austria-Hungary
Died	20 September 1937(1937-09-20) (aged 80) Oslo, Norway
Alma mater	German Charles-Ferdinand University in Prague
Scientific career
Fields	Chemistry
Institutions	University of Amsterdam, ETH Zurich, University of Oslo

Heinrich Jacob Goldschmidt, aka Heinrich Jakob Goldschmidt (April 12, 1857, in Prague, Austria-Hungary - September 9, 1937, 1921, in Oslo, Norway) was a Jewish Austrian chemist working most of his career in Norway. He studied chemistry at the German Charles-Ferdinand University in Prague where he received his PhD in 1881. In the same year he became professor at the ETH Zurich where he worked with Victor Meyer. In the year 1888 his son Victor Goldschmidt was born, Victor later became a renown mineralogist and founder of modern geochemistry. After working at the University of Amsterdam with Jacobus Henricus van 't Hoff in 1894 and 1895 Heinrich Goldschmidt became full proferssor at the ETH. He left the ETH in 1901 for the University of Oslo. He worked there until his retirement in 1929 at the age of 72. As his son Victor became professor for mineralogy at the University of Göttingen in 1929 he moved with him to Göttingen, but both had to leave this after the Nazis came to power, and farther and son returned to Oslo in 1935. Heinrich Jacob Goldschmidt died in Oslo in 1937.