'Paul Heinrich von Groth' (
June 23,
1843 – 1927) was a
German mineralogist. His most important contribution to science was his explanation of the connection between chemical compound and crystals structure.
He was born at
Magdeburg, and educated at
Freiberg,
Dresden and
Berlin, and received the doctorate degree in 1868. After holding from
1872 the chair of mineralogy at
Strasbourg, he was in 1883 appointed professor of mineralogy and curator of
minerals in the state museum at
Munich.
He carried on extensive researches on
crystals and minerals, and also on
rocks; and published ''Tabellarische Übersicht der einfachen Mineralien'' (1874-1898) and ''Physikalische Krystallographie'' (1876-1895, ed. 4, 1905). He edited for some years the ''Zeitschrift für Krystallographie und Mineralogie''.
Publications
as author
★ ''Elemente der physikalischen und chemischen Krystallographie'' (R. Oldenbourg, 1921)
★ ''Physikalische Krystallographie und Einleitung in die krystallographische Kenntniss der wichtigsten Subtanzen'' (W. Engelmann, 1905)
References
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