Penfield

Penfield

Penfield (spr. pénnfild), Samuel Lewis, Mineralog, geb. 16. Jan. 1856 in Catskill (New York), studierte am Yale College, 1880–81 in Straßburg, 1884 in Heidelberg und wurde 1887 Assistent für Chemie und Mineralogie und 1888 Professor der Mineralogie an der Sheffield Scientific School der Yale Universität in Newhaven (Connecticut). Er lieferte viele wichtige Arbeiten über die Zusammensetzung der Mineralien und ihre Kristallform, schrieb: »Contributions to mineralogy and petrography« (New York 1901) und bearbeitete die letzten Auflagen der »Determinative mineralogy and blowpipe analysis« von G. J. Brush (16. Aufl., das. 1903).


http://www.zeno.org/Meyers-1905. 1905–1909.

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