Talk:Marcel Tolkowsky

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[edit] Master's thesis

  • What was the subject of Tolkowsky's Master's thesis?
  • Have any wikipedians seen the thesis?
  • Were Tolkowsky's scholarly pursuits typical of the place he went to school?

[edit] Early parameterized diamond designs

  • Did anyone else publish a parameterized diamond design before Tolkowsky?

[edit] Biography

  • Where was Tolkowsky born?
  • Where did he grow up?
  • Where did he spend his adult life?
  • How long was he actively in the diamond cutting business?

[edit] Diamond designs

  • Did he ever propose modifications to his 1919 round brilliant design?
  • His family was cutting diamonds circa 1919.
    • Did these diamonds have girdles?
    • What angle were the star facets cut at? 15 degrees? or 19-20 degrees?
    • How steep were the upper girdle facets?
    • How many sides did the crown main facets have? 4? or 6?
    • How long were the lower girdle facets?
  • In 1919, Tolkowsky wrote that "The diamonds used as gems are generally colourless or only faintly coloured ; it can be taken that all the light that passes into the stones passes out again."
    • Using the modern color grading scale, what color were the diamonds that Tolkowsky was working with?
    • Did his assumption that "all the light that passes into the stones passes out again" cause a significant error? See Talk:Material_properties_of_diamond#Optical_properties
    • The quotation is from [1]

[edit] Relatives in the diamond business

  • How large was Tolkowsky's family's diamond business?
  • Where was the business located? Antwerp, Belgium
  • How much did the business grow while Tolkowsky was actively involved in it?
  • Is the business still going as an independent concern? Yes, it is called Tolkowsky and Sons, currently run by Gabi Tolkowsky.
  • Did Tolkowsky ever work in other people's businesses?
  • How many generations of Tolkowsky's ancestors were in the diamond business?
  • Did Tolkowsky have any descendants? Yes, most of them live in Antwerp, Belgium.
  • Besides Gabi Tolkowsky, did any of Tolkowsky's younger relatives go into the diamond business? Gabi's son is also working in the industry as is his daughter.