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4 unusual facts about Fritz Laves


Julian Goldsmith

Goldsmith, along with colleague Fritz Laves, first defined the crystallographic polymorphism of alkali feldspar (Newton, 1989).

Laves

Fritz Laves (1906-1978), a German mineralogist and crystallographer, best known for his description of the intermetallic Laves phases.

Laves phase

Laves phases are intermetallic phases that have composition AB2 and are named for Fritz Laves who first described them.

Toshikazu Sunada

It is believed that the crystallographer who explicitly described the network structure of the K4 crystal for the first time is Fritz Laves(1932).



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