Alexander Newton Winchell

Alexander Newton Winchell (born March 2, 1874 in Minneapolis , Minnesota, † June 7, 1958 in New Haven , Connecticut) was an American geologist and mineralogist. He was the son of Newton Horace Winchell .

Winchell was a professor at the Montana School of Mines from 1900 , from 1907 to 1944 at the University of Wisconsin , 1948/49 at the University of Virginia and 1949/50 in New York.

He did significant work on silicates and the relationship between the chemical and optical properties of crystalline compounds. In 1955 he was awarded the Roebling Medal of the Mineralogical Society of America for his services .

His son Horace Winchell (1915-1993) was also a well-known geologist, professor at Yale University.

Fonts

Elements of optical mineralogy
- Part 1: Principles and methods, Wiley, 5th edition 1937
- Part 2: Descriptions of minerals, Wiley 1927, 4th edition 1951
- Part 3: Determinative tables, Wiley, 2nd edition 1939
- The first edition appeared together with his father in 1909
with Horace Winchell: Microscopic properties of artificial inorganic solids, Academic Press 1964 (first as Optic and microscopic characters of artificial minerals , Madison 1927)
Elements of mineralogy, Prentice-Hall 1942
The optical properties of organic compounds, Academic Press 1954

Paul F. Kerr : Presentation of the Roebling Medal of the Mineralogical Society of America to Alexander Newton Winchell . In: American Mineralogist . tape 41 , no. 3-4 , 1956, pp. 321–325 (English, online article [PDF; 351 kB ]).
RC Emmonds: Memorial of Alexander Newton Winchell . In: The American Mineralogist . vol. 44, 1959 (English, online article [PDF; 406 kB ]).

personal data
SURNAME	Winchell, Alexander Newton
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	American geologist and mineralogist
DATE OF BIRTH	March 2, 1874
PLACE OF BIRTH	Minneapolis , Minnesota , USA
DATE OF DEATH	June 7, 1958
Place of death	New Haven (Connecticut) , USA