Victor Moritz Goldschmidt (1888-1947)

Abstract

This paper is part of a commemorative volume celebrating the centenary of the birth of the geochemist, Goldschmidt. It describes Goldschmidt's achievements in mineralogy and petrology, which laid the foundation of the science of inorganic crystal chemistry giving geochemistry its modern orientation and much of the impulse for its development. -E.Redpath