Vagn Buchwald

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Vagn Fabritius Buchwald (born June 23, 1929 in Frederiksberg ) is a Danish meteorite researcher who found the large meteorite Agpalilik in Greenland .

Life

With a PhD in engineering, Vagn Buchwald was a lecturer in metallurgy at Denmark's Technical University in Lyngby and is an expert on antique metal objects. The mineral Buchwaldite , discovered in the Agpalilik meteorite, was named after him. In 1963 he presented an overview of all then known fragments of the Cape York meteorite together, the largest after Agpalilik object was Savik I .

Fonts

  • Handbook of Iron Meteorites, Their History, Distribution, Composition, and Structure. University of California Press, Berkeley 1975, ISBN 978-0520029347 .
  • Ancient iron and slags in Greenland. Dansk Polar Center. Meddelelser om Grønland: Man & society; 26. Copenhagen 2001, ISBN 87-90369-49-1 .
  • Iron and steel in ancient times. Historisk-filosofiske skrifter; 29. Det Kongelige Danske Videnskabernes Selskab. Copenhagen 2005, ISBN 87-7304-308-7 .
  • Iron, steel and cast iron before Bessemer. Historisk-filosofiske skrifter; 32. Det Kongelige Danske Videnskabernes Selskab. Copenhagen 2008, ISBN 978-87-7304-335-6 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Buchwaldite in www.mindat.org
  2. ↑ Fritz Heide: Brief Meteoritenkunde. Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 3rd edition, 1988.
  3. ↑ Ulkomaiset jäsenet - Foreign Members ( Memento of the original from October 9, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. of the Finnish Academy of Sciences and Literature @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.acadsci.fi
  4. ↑ Dansk Forening Geologisk: medlemmer (PDF; 493 kB), December 1958
  5. ↑ Ancient iron and slags in Greenland. Dansk Polar Center. Meddelelser om Grønland: Man & society; 26. Copenhagen 2001, ISBN 87-90369-49-1 , blurb .
  6. ↑ Buchwald, VF, and Wivel, H. (1998) "Slag Analysis as a Method for the Characterization and Provenancing of Ancient Iron Objects", Materials Characterization 40, 73-96.
  7. ↑ Buchwald, VF (2005) "Iron and steel in ancient times", Royal Danish Academy of Sciences and Letters, København, 2005, ISBN 87-7304-308-7
  8. ↑ Buchwald, VF (2008) "Iron, steel and cast iron before Bessemer: the slag-analytical method and the role of carbon and phosphorus", Royal Danish Academy of Sciences and Letters, København, 2008, ISBN 978-87-7304- 335-6 .
  9. ↑ Olsen, Bunch, Moore: Buchwaldite, a new meteoric phosphate mineral . In American Mineralogist, Issue 62, 1977. Online (PDF; 291 kB).
  10. ^ Cape York at The Meteoritical Society, accessed August 18, 2011


personal data
SURNAME Buchwald, Vagn
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Buchwald, Vagn Fabritius (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Danish meteorite researcher and metallurgist
DATE OF BIRTH June 23, 1929
PLACE OF BIRTH Fredriksberg