Aristides Brezina (4 May 1848 – 25 May 1909) was an Austrian mineralogist born in Vienna.
Aristides Brezina | |
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| Born | 4 May 1848 |
| Died | 25 May 1909 (aged 61) |
| Citizenship | Austrian |
| Education | University of Tübingen (1872) |
| Occupation | Mineralogist |
| Known for | Co-architect of the "Rose-Tschermak-Brezina classification" system for meteorites |
In 1872 he graduated from the University of Tübingen, and afterwards taught crystallography at the University of Vienna. In 1878 he succeeded Austrian mineralogist Gustav Tschermak (1836-1927) as custodian of the meteorite collection at Vienna, and from 1889 until 1896 he was director of the Mineralogisch-Petrographische Abteilung (Department of Mineralogy-Petrography). In 1886, he was elected as a member to the American Philosophical Society.[1]
Brezina is known for his study of meteorites, and with German mineralogist Gustav Rose (1798-1873) and Tschermak, he was co-architect of the "Rose-Tschermak-Brezina classification" system for meteorites.[2] It was largely based on criteria such as texture and color, and was widely used from the mid-1880s to around 1920 when a simpler method of classification was proposed by George Thurland Prior.[3]
Brezinaite, a mineral found in meteorites, is named after him.
Bibliography
edit- Brezina, Aristides (1882). Meteoritenstudien II.: Über die Orientierung der Schnittflächen an Eisenmeteroriten mittelst der Widmannstädten'schen Figuren, Band 44 (in German). p. 158.
- Brezina, Aristides (1882). Über die Reichenbach'schen Lamellen in Meteoreisen. K.K. Hof- und Staatsdruckerei. p. 4.
- Brezina, Aristides (1885). Die Meteoritensammlung des K. K. Mineralogischen Hofkabinetes in Wien: am 1. Mai 1885; mit vier Tafeln (in German). Hölder. pp. 126.
- Brezina, Aristides (1886). Die Struktur und Zusammensetzung der Meteoreisen: erläutert durch photographische Abbildungen geätzter Schnittflächen (in German). E. Schweizerbart'sche Verlagshandlung.
- Brezina, Aristides (1892). Die zwei hochorientirten Meteoreisen: von Hraschina bei Agram (gefallen 26. Mai 1791) und Cabin Creek, Arkansas (gefallen 27. März 1886) (in German). p. 4.
- Brezina, Aristides; Emil Wilhelm Cohen (1886). Lithosiderite und Oktaedrite mit feinsten und feinen Lamellen (in German). p. 18.
- Aristides, Brezina (1895). Über Gefüge und Zusammensetzung der Meteoriten: Vortrag, gehalten den 19. December 1894 (in German). Selbstverlag des Vereines zur Verbreitung naturwissenschaftlicher Kenntnisse. p. 36.
- Brezina, Aristides; José A. y Bonilla (1896). Die Meteoritensammlung des K. K. Naturhistorischen Hofmuseums am 1. Mai 1895: Mit zwei Anhängen (in German). Wien: A. Hölder, K. und K. Hof- und Universitäts-Buchändler. p. 370.
- Brezina, Aristides (1896). Die Meteoritensammlung der Universität Tübingen (in German).
- Brezina, A. (1904), "The Arrangement of Collections of Meteorites", Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society, Vol.43, No.176, (April 1904), pp.211-247. JSTOR 983506
- Brezina, Aristides (1909). Der Meteorsteinfall zu Mern, von Dr. Aristides Brezina (in German). B. Lunos Bogtrykkeri. p. 15.
See also
editReferences
edit- ^ "APS Member History". search.amphilsoc.org. Retrieved 2021-05-24.
- ^ McSween, Harry Y. (1999). Meteorites and Their Parent Planets (2. ed.). Cambridge [u.a.]: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 0-521-58303-9.
- ^ SAO/NASA Astrophysics Data System (ADS) A simplified classification of meteorites and its symbolism.
- Biographies of Mineralogists
- Robert Hutchison (2007). Meteorites. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0-521-47010-0.