New Mexico Mineral Symposium — Abstracts

Throughout history, many mineral species have been named after a person. Some of these individuals are hardly known to science, even today. On the other hand, the mineralogists who described new species are fairly well known in most cases.

One 20th Century mineralogist however, who described many new minerals, remained a complete mistery. Besides his name and the minerals he described, hardly anything else was known about him. No biography was ever written about him, no photos of him were ever published, and even his nationality was an open question.

In this talk you will be introduced to this intriguing scientist. You will learn more about him and the beautiful minerals he described, and you will even get to see, for the first time in history, some photos of the mineralogist in question.