Alois von Beck Widmanstätten

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title: Alois von Beck Widmanstätten
text: Count Alois von Beckh Widmanstätten was a printer and mineralogist from the Holy Roman Empire and then the Austrian Empire. His name is sometimes given as Alois von Beckh-Widmannstätten or Aloys Joseph Franz Xaver Beck Edler von Widmanstätten. He is known for recognizing a unique pattern of cross-hatching lines on the surface of iron-rich meteorites, now called Widmanstätten patterns, resulting from the cooling and crystallization of interstitial minerals. A crater on the Moon is named after Wid
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description: Austrian printer and mineralogist
original url: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alois_von_Beck_Widmanst%C3%A4tten
date created: 2006-02-02T06:46:19Z
date modified: 2024-08-31T20:52:47Z
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