Adolf Pabst (30 November 1899,

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– 3 April 1990,

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) was an American mineralogist and geologist.

Biography

Pabst received in 1925 his bachelor's degree at the

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and in 1928 his Ph.D. in geology and mineralogy at the

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under George D. Louderbeck with a thesis on mineral

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s in the granitic

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s of the

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. For the academic year 1928/29 he won an

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fellowship for postdoctoral study; on this postdoc under Victor Moritz Goldschmidt in

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, Pabst married Gudrun Lisabeth Bert. After returning to Berkeley, he became in 1929 an instructor, in 1931 an assistant professor, in 1936 an associate professor, and in 1944 a full professor. In the academic year 1938/39 he was a Guggenheim Fellow at the

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and in the academic year 1955/56 a Fulbright Fellow at the

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. In 1967 he retired as professor emeritus, but continued to do research at U. C. Berkeley and published steadily until 1984. He was in the academic year 1967/68 a visiting professor of mineralogy und crystallography at the

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and in the academic year 1968/69 a visiting professor of mineralogy at the

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. He was also in the academic year 1970/71 a Fulbright Visiting Professor at the University of Berlin and the University of Kiel. Pabst was for many years on the editorial board of ''

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''. He first described various minerals, among which are huttonite and macdonaldite.

Awards and honors

Pabst was in 1951 President of the

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, in 1980 President of the

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, and in the two years 1948 and 1949 President of the Crystallographic Society of America.History of the America Crystallographic Association
/ref> He was elected a member of the Mineralogical Society of London and in 1967 a Fellow der California Academy of Sciences. In 1971 he was made an honorary member of the German Mineralogical Society. He received in 1965 the

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and in 1974 the Austrian Mineralogical Society's Friedrich Becke Medal. The mineral pabstite is named in his honor.

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* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Pabst, Adolf 1899 births 1990 deaths American mineralogists University of Illinois alumni University of California, Berkeley alumni University of California, Berkeley faculty