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Friedrich Johann Karl Becke

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Name
  
Friedrich Karl

Awards
  
Wollaston Medal

Notable awards
  
Wollaston Medal

Education
  
University of Vienna

Role
  
Mineralogist


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Born
  
31 December 1855 Prague Austria-Hungary (
1855-12-31
)

Died
  
June 18, 1931, Vienna, Austria

Doctoral advisor
  
Gustav Tschermak von Seysenegg

Friedrich Johann Karl Becke (31 December 1855 in Prague – 18 June 1931 in Vienna) was an Austrian mineralogist and petrographer.

Biography

After studying at the University of Vienna, where he specialized in the natural sciences, he became there a lecturer on geology. In 1882 he was appointed professor at the University of Czernowitz. Eight years later he received a similar appointment at Prague, but soon after went to Vienna, where he became professor of mineralogy, succeeding Gustav Tschermak von Seysenegg as such, of whose periodical Mineralogische und Petrographische Mittheilungen he became editor. He published many papers on the science of geology and mineralogy, but he was best known on account of his researches in the field of rock-forming minerals and how they may be determined by means of their light-refractive properties. The results of these studies were published by the Vienna Academy (1893).

References

Friedrich Johann Karl Becke Wikipedia