Kristallographische Studien an Calcit und Baryt von Långbanshyttan.
Diss. Stockholm 1918, Geologiska Föreningens i Stockholm Förhandlingar, Bd 40: Häfte no.325, pp. 255-446, 48 figures, 5 plates (1 folded col. and 4 with overlays). 360 gram, 23 x 14 cm. Nyskick som osprättat ex. Thorough work on the crystallography of calcite from the famous mine in Långban, Sweden. Gregori Aminoff (1883-1947), Swedish artist and scientist of Russian descent. He became interested in minerals already as a schoolboy and was given free access to the mineral collection at the Museum of Natural History by the famous Arctic explorer Adolf Erik Nordenskiöld, who was Professor of Mineralogy there. At the age of 22 he received a bachelor?s degree and published two minor papers. He then left science for art. Aminoff was successful and painted in Italy, London and Paris where he studied for a period with Henri Matisse. With the outbreak of the First World War he resumed his scientific studies and gained his doctorate in 1918 (here offered). In the same year he introduced X-ray crystallography into Sweden. He became Professor of Mineralogy at the Museum of Natural History in 1923. In 1926 it was discovered that electrons could give diffraction patterns similar to those of X-rays, and in 1930 Aminoff introduced electron diffraction into Sweden. (source Royal Swedish Academy web-site) 450 kr
