Harry Rosenbusch
Harry Rosenbusch | |
|---|---|
 Harry Rosenbusch | |
| Born | 24 June 1836 |
| Died | 20 January 1914 (aged 77) |
| Nationality | German |
| Alma mater | Universität Freiburg |
| Awards | Wollaston Medal (1903) |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | petrography |
| Institutions | Heidelberg University |
| Thesis | Der Nephelinit vom Katzenbuckel (1869) |
| Doctoral advisor | 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
- 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
- ^ Also known as Karl Heinrich/Harry Rosenbusch, or H. F. Rosenbusch
- ^ "Obituary. Karl H. F. Rosenbusch". Geological Magazine. 51: 140–141. 1914. doi:10.1017/s0016756800138269.
- ^ "The Geological Society of London". The Times. No. 36974. London. 10 January 1903. p. 6.
External links
- Flett, John Smith (1911). . 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
