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SCIENCE has to deplore the loss of another of her ‘grand old men’, Germany one of her most distinguished sons, and the world of culture at large one of the most accomplished, versatile and beneficent of its exponents, in the passing on May 8 of Prof. (Herr Geheimrath) Victor Gold-schmidt, honorary professor of mineralogy and crystallography at the University of Heidelberg, at the ripe age of eighty years. His name has long been a household word with the small, but now happily increasing, coterie of workers in crystallography, which he was fond of calling the “Queen of Sciences”; and he was never tired of expressing his intense delight in the wonderful beauty of crystals. Yet so wide were his interests that in many other subjects he was almost equally distinguished, particularly ethnography, astronomy, physiology, colour in art, and tone and harmony in music. Having inherited great wealth—sadly depleted afterwards by the War—he was able to advance the interests of his subjects to an exceptional degree, and became a ‘pious founder’ in the truest sense of the term.
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TUTTON, A. Prof. Victor Goldschmidt. Nature 131, 791–792 (1933). https://doi.org/10.1038/131791b0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/131791b0