Emil Makovicky

Emil Makovicky (born August 18, 1940 in Bratislava ) is a Slovak mineralogist and crystallographer who has been professor of mineralogy at the University of Copenhagen since 1995 . He has now retired.

Live and act

Makovicky studied geology and mineralogy at the Comenius University in Bratislava from 1957 and graduated in 1962 with a diploma. He received his doctorate there in 1967 in mineralogy and was assistant professor, but went to McGill University in Montreal , Canada in 1967 , where he received his second doctorate in 1970 (Ph. D. in crystallography). From 1970 to 1972 he worked at Yale University in New Haven , Connecticut / USA, and from 1972 he was employed as a lecturer at the University of Copenhagen. In 1989 he became a lecturer there and in 1995 professor for mineralogy at the Geological Institute (since 2007 “Department of Geography and Geology”). From 1991 to 1993 he was Associate Editor of the Canadian Mineralogist and since 1997 has been Associate Editor of the Journal of Crystallography .

Emil Makovicky dealt with modular classification and large-scale crystal chemistry of complex sulfides, oxides and other compounds; with the crystal structure analysis; with crystal chemistry at higher pressures and temperatures; with the solubility of platinum group elements and gold in melts of sulfides and arsenides; with sulfosalts and with irregularities in layer structures. He is first author (z. B. Ferdowsiit , Litochlebit and Dantopait ) and coauthor (z. B. for Philrothit , Barikait , Jasrouxit , Cuproneyit , Chovanit , Cupromakopavonit , Tazieffit , Gabrielit , Catamarcait , Kudriavit , Milotait , Kupcikit , Sicherit and Felbertalit ) for numerous mineral first descriptions. He has also worked on determining the crystal structure of countless minerals.

He also worked on symmetries in Islamic ornaments. Here he found, among other things, references to a medieval variant of the Penrose tiling .

From 1995 to 2002 Makovicky visited gold deposits in northeast and south China for field studies . He also visited and worked on mineral deposits in Slovakia , the Czech Republic , Sweden , Switzerland , Austria , Bolivia , Siberia / Russia , the USA , Spain and Egypt .

Emil Makovicky is married and has two children.

Honors

In 1994 Lubor Žák, Jiří Frýda, W. Gus Mumme and Werner H. Paar (1994) named a copper - silver - lead - bismuth - sulfosalt of the pavonite series from Băiţa Bihor in Romania as makovickyite in honor of Emil Makovicky . Makovicky is also the namesake for the cupromakovickyite described by Dan Topa and Werner H. Paar from Băiţa Bihor and from the scheelite deposit in Felbertal in Austria .

Makovicky has been a Fellow of the Mineralogical Society of America since 1986 and a member of the Royal Danish Academy of Sciences since 1996 . He is also a member of seven other scientific societies. In 1997 he received the "Emanuel Boricky Medal" from Charles University in Prague and in 2006 the "Dimitrij Andrusov Medal" from the Faculty of Natural Sciences at Comenius University. He is also the holder of the "Dionýz-Štúr Medal" of the Slovak Geological Service. In 2013 he received the " Carl Hermann Medal " from the German Society for Crystallography and in 2015 the Friedrich Becke Medal from the Austrian Mineralogical Society .

Publications (selection)

• 2016: Symmetry: Through the Eyes of Old Masters (De Gruyter)
• 2008: Crystallography of Modular Materials , together with Giovanni Ferraris and Stefano Merlino (Oxford: Oxford University Press 2004, 2nd edition 2008)

Web links

• Homepage, University of Copenhagen