Gregori Aminoff

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Gregori Aminoff (born February 8, 1883 in Stockholm , † February 11, 1947 ibid) was a Swedish mineralogist, professor of mineralogy , director of the mineralogical department at the Naturhistoriska riksmuseet (literally Natural History Museum ) and artist .

Life

Aminoff was born in Stockholm in 1883 as the son of Captain Tönnes Aminoff and his wife Mathilde (née Lindström). At the age of 22 he passed his first university exams in Uppsala and for the next ten years turned to the fine arts, especially music and painting. Among other things, he studied in Paris and Italy , where he improved his skills in landscape and portrait painting. But then he returned to the natural sciences.

Aminoff married Ingrid Setterlund in 1908. From this marriage the daughters Brita, Eva, Malin and Ulla were born.

In 1918 he became Dr. of philosophy and in the same year worked as a lecturer in mineralogy and crystallography at Stockholm University . In 1923 he succeeded Hjalmar Sjögren , the previous director of the mineralogical department at Naturhistoriska riksmuseet .

Aminoff published numerous publications on all areas of mineralogy. He investigated and described newly discovered minerals, among others, finnemanite (1923), Swedenborgite (1924), magnetoplumbite (1925) and sahlinite (1934).

Honors

The mineral Aminoffit , newly discovered in Långban in 1937 , was named after him.

The Gregori Aminoff Prize , endowed with 100,000 Swedish crowns, is named after him and has been awarded annually since 1979 for outstanding international achievements in the field of crystallography . The award is sponsored by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences .

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SURNAME Aminoff, Gregori
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swedish mineralogist, professor of mineralogy and artist
DATE OF BIRTH February 8, 1883
PLACE OF BIRTH Stockholm
DATE OF DEATH February 11, 1947
Place of death Stockholm