Gabor Dessau
Gabor Dessau (born June 27, 1907 in Perugia , † November 16, 1983 in Pisa ) was an Italian mineralogist .
Gabor Dessau, son of the German physicist Bernardo Dessau and the painter Emma Dessau-Goitein from the extensive family of rabbis and scholars Goitein , studied mining in Pisa and Rome since 1924 and worked for a few years at the Mineralogical Institute of Technology in Rome after receiving his doctorate in 1929 Berlin University of Applied Sciences . 1945 to 1949 he was a technical advisor to UNESCO in Haifa. 1951 to 1955 he was a professor ("professore incaricato") for deposits at the University of Naples , 1957 to 1959 and since 1961 at the University of Pisa . From 1960 to 1962 he was a Research Fellow at Harvard University .
The mineral Dessauit- (Y) was named after him.
literature
- Katja Wannack: Hermann Dessau. The almost forgotten student of Mommsen and the large companies of the Berlin Academy of Sciences. Kovac, Hamburg 2007, ISBN 978-3-8300-2897-0 , p. 5. 177.
- Gabriella Steindler Moscati: La libertà si chiama Jaipur. Dalle leggi razziali alla corte del Maharaja. Le vicende di un ebreo italiano nella II guerra mondiale. Ed. Mimesis, Milan 2010. ISBN 978-88-8483-982-4 .
Web links
- Giuseppe Tanelli: Gabor Dessau pp. 23–23 (PDF; 443 kB)
Individual evidence
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Dessau, Gabor |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Italian geologist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 27, 1907 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Perugia |
| DATE OF DEATH | November 16, 1983 |
| Place of death | Pisa |