Heinrich Jacob Goldschmidt
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, Austria-Hungary
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- September 9, 1937, in Oslo
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, Norway
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) 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
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where he worked with Victor Meyer. In the year 1888 his son Victor Goldschmidt
Victor Goldschmidt
Victor Moritz Goldschmidt was a mineralogist considered to be the founder of modern geochemistry and crystal chemistry, developer of the Goldschmidt Classification of elements.-Early life & career:Goldschmidt was born in Zürich...
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
Jacobus Henricus van 't Hoff
Jacobus Henricus van 't Hoff, Jr. was a Dutch physical and organic chemist and the first winner of the Nobel Prize in chemistry. He is best known for his discoveries in chemical kinetics, chemical equilibrium, osmotic pressure, and stereochemistry...
in 1894 and 1895 Heinrich Goldschmidt became full proferssor at the ETH. He left the ETH in 1901 for the University of Oslo
University of Oslo
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. 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
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, but both had to leave this after the Nazis came to power, and father and son returned to Oslo in 1935. Heinrich Jacob Goldschmidt died in Oslo in 1937.