Julian Goldsmith

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For the British politician see Sir Julian Goldsmid, 3rd Baronet

Julian Royce Goldsmith (1918–1999) was a mineralogist and geochemist at the University of Chicago (Moore, 1971). Goldsmith, along with colleague Fritz Laves, first defined the crystallographic polymorphism of alkali feldspar (Newton, 1989). Goldsmith also experimented on the temperature dependence of the solid solution between calcite and dolomite (Newton, 1989). Goldsmith’s research also led him to experiment with the determination of the stability of intermediate structural states of albite (Newton, 1989). For his outstanding contributions to the study of mineralogy and geochemistry, Goldsmith was awarded the prestigious Roebling Medal by the Mineralogical Society of America in 1988 (Newton, 1989). The mineral julgoldite was named for him.

References

Moore, P.B. (1971) Julgoldite, the Fe +2-Fe+3 dominant pumpellyite. A new mineral from Långban, Sweden. Lithos 4, 93-99.
Newton, R. (1989) Presentation of the Roebling Medal of the Mineralogical Society of America for 1988 to Julian R. Goldsmith. American Mineralogist, 74, 715-716.
Edward J. Olsen, Memorial for Julian Royce Goldsmith, 1918–1999, American Mineralogist, Volume 85, pages 382–383, 2000

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Name	Goldsmith, Julian
Alternative names	Goldsmith, Julian Royce
Short description	Mineralogist and geochemist
Date of birth	1918
Place of birth
Date of death	1999
Place of death

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