Victor Goldschmidt

Victor Goldschmidt ForMemRS
Young Victor Goldschmidt
Born	Victor Moritz Goldschmidt (1888-01-27)27 January 1888 Zürich, Switzerland
Died	20 March 1947(1947-03-20) (aged 59) Oslo, Norway
Nationality	Norwegian
Alma mater	University of Oslo
Known for	Geochemistry Goldschmidt tolerance factor Lanthanide contraction
Father	Heinrich Jacob Goldschmidt
Awards	Foreign Member of the Royal Society Elliott Cresson Medal (1903) Wollaston Medal (1944)
Scientific career
Fields	Geochemistry
Institutions	University of Oslo University of Göttingen Macaulay Institute for Soil Research Rothamsted Research
Thesis	Die Kontaktmetamorphose im Kristianiagebiet and Geologisch-petrographische Studien im Hochgebirge des südlichen Norwegens  (1911)
Doctoral advisor	Waldemar C. Brøgger
Doctoral students	Brian Harold Mason Katharina Boll-Dornberger William Houlder Zachariasen

Victor Moritz Goldschmidt ForMemRS (27 January 1888 – 20 March 1947) was a Norwegian mineralogist considered (together with Vladimir Vernadsky) to be the founder of modern geochemistry and crystal chemistry, developer of the Goldschmidt Classification of elements.