biography
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Genth, Frederick Augustus
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| male
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| lived:
| (1820–93)
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| biography:
| Mineralogist, born in Wächtersbach, C Germany. He studied at Giessen and Marburg universities, went to the USA in 1848, and became professor of chemistry and mineralogy at Pennsylvania (1872). He investigated the cobalt-ammonium compounds, and discovered 24 new minerals, one of which is named genthite. |
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