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Hardcover. Condizione: Near Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Original blue cloth. First Edition. Goldschmidt was a Norwegian mineralogist who founded modern geochemistry and crystal chemistry and developed the Goldschmidt Classification of elements. After the Germans invaded Norway in 1940, Goldschmidt, who was Jewish, was arrested and about to be deported to Auschwitz when colleagues convinced the Germans that his scientific expertise was essential to the state. Goldschmidt was released, and he fled to Sweden and then to Britain where he provided information German use of raw materials and production of heavy water. Provenance: From the library of Chemistry professor Herbert M. Clark, who worked on the Manhattan Project, with his name in ink dated November 1954. Near Fine in Near Fine Dust Jacket.…