James Smithson, a British mineralogist and chemist, leaves a bequest of £100,000 to fund the Smithsonian Institution.
It is named after Axel Fredrik Cronstedt, a Swedish mineralogist and chemist of the 18th century.
It is named after the Baltic German geologist and mineralogist Wolf von Engelhardt (1910–2008).
It is named after Johan Gottschalk Wallerius, a Swedish chemist and mineralogist of the 18th century.
It was first described in 1968 for an occurrence in Monte Chiaro, Albareto, Parma Province, Emilia-Romagna, Italy and named for the Italian mineralogist Andrea Alietti (born 1923).
Anselmus de Boodt (1550-1632), a Belgian mineralogist and physician
It was first described in 1948 for an occurrence in the Hillside mine, north of Bagdad, Yavapai County, Arizona and named for mineralogist William Shirley Bayley (1861–1943) of the University of Illinois.
It was first mentioned by Philip Rashleigh in 1797 as an ore of antimony and was more completely described in 1804 by French crystallographer and mineralogist Jacques Louis, Comte de Bournon (1751–1825), after whom it was named.
Brushite was first described in 1865 for an occurrence on Aves Island, Nueva Esparta, Venezuela, and named for the American mineralogist George Jarvis Brush (1831–1912).
Frédéric Cailliaud, (1787–1869), French naturalist, mineralogist and conchologist
The jewelry was part of a temporary exhibition by mineralogist and Israeli billionaire Lev Leviev called Leviev Diamond House.
A natural iron carbide (containing minor amounts of nickel and cobalt) occurs in iron meteorites and is called cohenite after the German mineralogist Emil Cohen, who first described it.
The École nationale supérieure de chimie de Paris was founded in 1896 by Charles Friedel, a chemist and mineralogist who headed the school until 1899.
According to a popular but controversial story, alexandrite was discovered by the Finnish mineralogist Nils Gustaf Nordenskiöld (1792–1866), and named alexandrite in honor of the future Tsar Alexander II of Russia.
This forms a hard, shiny, silver mineral which was named by E. Weinschenk in 1889 after the German mineralogist Emil Cohen, who first described and analysed material from the Magura meteorite found near Slanica, Žilina Region, Slovakia.
Danalite was first described in 1866 from a deposit in Essex County, Massachusetts and named for American mineralogist James Dwight Dana (1813–1895).
Edward Sydney Simpson (1875–1939), Australian mineralogist and geochemist
Émile Bertrand (1844–1909) was a French mineralogist, in honour of whom Bertrandite was named by Alexis Damour.
As well as being a mineralogist he was interested in entomology and particularly in the Coleoptera and Hemiptera.
Franz Ernst Brückmann (September 27, 1697 – March 21, 1753) was a German mineralogist born at Marienthal near Helmstedt.
Georges Friedel (1865-1933), French crystallographer and mineralogist; son of Charles
George Lorenzo Noyes (1863–1945), American mineralogist, naturalist, development critic, writer and landscape artist
René Just Haüy (1743–1822), French mineralogist, brother of Valentin Haüy
Hidden sent samples of the odd green material to J. Lawrence Smith, a prominent chemist and mineralogist of Louisville, Kentucky.
James Dwight Dana (1813–1895), American geologist, mineralogist and zoologist
Johann Nepomuk von Fuchs (1774–1856), German chemist and mineralogist, known as Johann Nepomuk Fuchs until 1854
Juan José Elhuyar Lubize (15 June 1754 – 20 September 1796) was a Spanish chemist and mineralogist, the joint discoverer of tungsten with his brother Fausto Elhuyar in 1783.
Krennerite was discovered in 1878 in Sacaramb, Romania, and first described by the Hungarian mineralogist Joseph Krenner (1839–1920).
Kurnakovite, was first described by Godlevsky in 1940 for an occurrence in the Inder borate deposits in Atyrau Province, Kazakhstan, and is named for Russian mineralogist and chemist Nikolai Semenovich Kurnakov (1860–1941).
Fritz Laves (1906-1978), a German mineralogist and crystallographer, best known for his description of the intermetallic Laves phases.
Lewis Caleb Beck, 19th Century American physician, botanist, chemist, and mineralogist
It was named after chemist William Lipscomb by the mineralogist John W. Gruner who first made it artificially.
Martine Bertereau also known as Baroness de Beausoleil (born c. 1600, France – died after 1642, Vincennes, France) was a pioneering French woman mining engineer and mineralogist who traveled extensively in Europe in search on mineral deposits.
Nickel–Strunz classification is a scheme for categorizing minerals based upon their chemical composition, introduced by German mineralogist Karl Hugo Strunz (24 February 1910 – 19 April 2006) in his Mineralogische Tabellen (1941).
Wright had presented the find to several experts, among them Richard Owen, David Forbes, George Robert Waterhouse and Samuel Pickworth Woodward but only Gideon Mantell came with a useful suggestion pointing to a similarity with the teeth of the dinosaur Hylaeosaurus.
It was first reported in 1888 for an occurrence in Tierra Amarilla, Copiapó Province, Atacama Region, Chile and named by G. Linck in 1889 for the German mineralogist F. A. von Quenstedt.
It was first described in 1825 for an occurrence in the Rappold mines of Schneeberg, Saxony, Germany and named for German mineralogist Gustav Rose who discovered this mineral.
It was first described in 1868 and named for Italian mining engineer and mineralogist Quintino Sella (1827–1884).
Russian mineralogist Nikolay Koksharov (1818-1892 or 1893) is often credited with its discovery.
It was named after Edward Sydney Simpson (1875–1939), government mineralogist and analyst of Western Australia.
Thorite was discovered in 1828 on the island of Løvøya, Norway, by the vicar and mineralogist, Hans Morten Thrane Esmark, who sent the first specimens of this black mineral to his father, Jens Esmark, who was a professor of mineralogy and geology.
It is named after the Dutch mineralogist Willem Uytenbogaardt (1918 – 2012), Professor of Geology, Technical University, Delft, The Netherlands, prominent ore microscopist.
Victor Mordechai Goldschmidt (February 10, 1853, in Mainz - May 8, 1933, in Salzburg) was a German mineralogist, natural philosopher, and art collector.
Through his Yale contacts and Spencer Baird of the Smithsonian Institute, he was selected mineralogist and geologist of the Pacific Railroad Exploring Expedition of 1853, exploring a railroad route in southern California.