George Jarvis Brush
George Jarvis Brush ( * December 15, 1831 in Brooklyn, New York, † February 6, 1912 ) was an American mineralogist.
Life
George Brush was the son of a successful import merchant and came up with 15 years in the school of Theodore S. Gold in West Cornwall (Connecticut), where his scientific interest awoke. He first worked for a trading company in New York City and should then go into agriculture due to illness. In 1848 he attended lectures on chemistry, agriculture, mineralogy and metallurgy in New Haven at Benjamin Silliman at Yale University. In 1850 he became assistant to Silliman at the University of Louisville ( Silliman taught there Chemistry and Toxicology in the Medical School ) and was admitted to the graduate program of the Sheffield School of Science at Yale, where he received his doctorate in 1852. After that, he was 1852/53 at the University of Virginia ( where he in the American Journal of Science first published work on minerals ) before he went on trips to Europe, where he made contact with European mineralogists and chemists. He was in Munich at Justus von Liebig, Franz von Hess Peter and Max von Pettenkofer and at the Mining Academy Freiberg.
In 1855 he became professor of metallurgy at the Sheffield Scientific School at Yale, but spent a year in England at the Royal School of Mines and the study of mines and metallurgical plants in England. In 1864 he also took over the teaching of mineralogy and from 1871 he was just a professor of mineralogy. He was born in 1872 Director of the Sheffield Scientific School, and devoted himself thenceforth almost exclusively administrative tasks - from 1884 he held no more lectures - Professor in Mineralogy in 1893 Samuel Lewis Penfield, who was there already from 1879 Instructor. In 1898 he retired, the school remained connected as secretary, treasurer and chairman of the board. In 1904 he handed over his collection of 15,000 minerals of the school, later she came to Peabody Museum of Natural History. Brush was one of the Trustees of the Peabody Museum, and increased the original foundation of George Peabody by clever investment.
His Manual of Mineralogy determinative experienced many editions and was later edited by Penfield. Brush even edited the new editions of Dana's System of Mineralogy (of James Dwight Dana ) 1854 ( 4th edition ). 1863 to 1879 he was co-editor of the American Journal of Science.
Besides his work, he also had directorships in the industry, he was a director of the Jackson Iron Co. in the Lake Superior District and a director of the New Haven, New York and Hartford Railroad from 1893.
Honors and Memberships
One of Charles Upham Shepard first described in 1856 as Epiglaubit, new mineral in 1865 scientifically described precisely by Gideon Emmet Moore ( 1842-1895 ) again and called in honor of Brush as brushite.
In 1868 he became a member of the National Academy of Sciences in 1879 and an honorary member of the Mineralogical Society of Great Britain and Ireland. In 1886 he received an honorary doctorate in law from Harvard University. He was a member of the Geological Society of London and the Bavarian Academy of Sciences.
Writings
- Manual of determinative Mineralogy, 1874 ( expanded edition 1898 Penfield )