Alexander Newton Winchell
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Alexander Newton Winchell
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Alexander Newton Winchell was an American geologist who pioneered spectroscopic and X-ray crystallographic studies on minerals. He wrote an influential textbook, the Elements of optical mineralogy which went into several editions. Winchell was born in Minneapolis to Newton Horace and Charlotte Sophia. He was educated at the University of Minnesota with a BS in 1896 and MS in 1897 under Charles Peter Berkey. He then studied in Paris under Alfred Lacroix receiving a DSc in 1900. He then joined the
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American geologist and mineralogist (1874–1958)
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