Joseph Anthony Mandarino

Joseph Anthony Mandarino , called Joe, (born April 20, 1929 in Chicago , † September 18, 2007 in Toronto ) was an American-Canadian mineralogist.

Life

Mandarino was already interested in minerals as a schoolboy and published in Rocks and Minerals magazine at the age of 18. He studied at the Michigan College of Mining and Technology in Houghton (Michigan) with a master's degree in 1951. He then served from 1952 to 1954 in the US Air Force as a lieutenant, but had various summer jobs in geology and mineralogy and was Assistant Professor at Michigan College of Mining from 1957 to 1959. From 1959 until his retirement in 1994 he was a curator at the Royal Ontario Museum , whose Acting Associate Director he was from 1990 to 1992. At the same time he was a professor at the University of Toronto from 1980 to 1991.

From 1983 to 1994, he succeeded Michael Fleischer and Akira Kato as Chairman of the Commission on New Minerals and Mineral Names (CNMMN) of the International Mineralogical Association. Together with Michael Fleischer, he edited the new editions of the Glossary of Mineral Species in 1991, 1999 (without Fleischer) and 2004 (with Malcolm Back), and when he died he was busy creating the International Encyclopedia of Minerals .

Mandarino is considered Erstbeschreiber for 17 minerals such as, among others Denningit (1962), Romarchit and Hydroromarchit (1971), Barićit and Kulanit (1976), Marićit (1977), Walfordit (1999) and Keilit (2002). He also dealt with crystal optics, in particular the Gladstone-Dale relation (after John Hall Gladstone , Thomas Pelham Dale 1864), which relates the refractive index to optical constants of the molecular and elementary components.

He had been married since 1957 and had four children.

Honors and memberships

The mineral mandarinoite from Bolivia was described in 1978 by Pete J. Dunn, Donald R. Peacor and Bozidar Darko Sturman and named after him.

In 1992 he became an honorary member of the Mineralogical Society of Great Britain and Ireland . 1973 to 1975 he was President of the Mineralogical Association of Canada , whose LG Berry Medal he received. He was an Honorary Director of the Canadian Gemmological Association. In 1977 he received the Queen Elizabeth II Silver Jubilee Medal and in 1996 the Sandor Koch Medal of the Hungarian Mineralogical Society. He also kept in close contact with amateur mineral collectors and was President of the Walker Mineralogical Club in Toronto.

Fonts

• Introductory Gemmology , Canadian Jewelers Institute 1962, 1975
• The Gladstone-Dale compatibility of minerals and its use in selecting mineral species for further study , Canadian Mineralogist, Volume 45, 2007, pp. 1307-1324

Web links

• Obituary at Elements by Robert Gait, Malcolm Back, pdf
• Obituary by Quintin Wight, pdf ( Memento from May 15, 2008 in the Internet Archive )

Individual evidence

1. ↑ John W. Anthony, Richard A. Bideaux, Kenneth W. Bladh, Monte C. Nichols: Mandarinoit , in: Handbook of Mineralogy, Mineralogical Society of America , 2001 ( PDF 68.5 kB )