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Victor Moritz Goldschmidt

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Victor Moritz Goldschmidt was a Norwegian mineralogist considered to be the founder of modern geochemistry and crystal chemistry, and the developer of the Goldschmidt classification of elements.

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Goldschmidt Classification (Wikipedia)
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The Goldschmidt classification, developed by Victor Goldschmidt (1888-1947), is a geochemical classification which groups the chemical elements within the Earth according to their preferred host phases
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