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Jacob Forster (1739–1806) and his connections with forsterite and palladium

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 July 2018

Clifford Frondel
Clifford Frondel*
Affiliation:
Department of Geological Sciences, Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass. 02138
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Summary

The person after whom forsterite was named has been confirmed as Jacob Forster (1739–1806), a mineral collector and dealer of London. The discovery of palladium and rhodium by William Hyde Wollaston and of iridium and osmium by Smithson Tennant appears to have been made on crude platinum ore from South America supplied by Forster.

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Research Article
Information
Mineralogical Magazine , Volume 38 , Issue 297 , March 1972 , pp. 545 - 550
Copyright
Copyright © The Mineralogical Society of Great Britain and Ireland 1972

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