Ivan Vtorov (Author)
Physis: Rivista Internazionale di Storia della Scienza
Volume: 56
Pages: 333-350
Alexander Fersman traveled to the Island of Elba (Italy) in the spring of 1908. He explored the island in search of a range of minerals and ores and especially pegmatite veins. It was his first independent scientific expedition and research project. He had completed his university education and worked under the tutelage of Vladimir Vernadsky, did an internship with Heinrich Rosenbusch, Victor Mordechai Goldschmidt, and Alfred Lacroix. The Island of Elba is well known for its abundance of interesting and rare minerals and Fersman dreamed about going to visit it. He studied museum samples and publications about Elba. His visit served him as a model and a reference for his further research of pegmatites. It gave him practical understanding and set a goal for his studies of mineralogical processes and geochemistry. Fersman published three papers about Elba’s minerals in Russian and used his own data in other publications. His Elba collection is still important for mineralogists and historians of science and is exhibited in the Fersman Mineralogical Museum of the Russian Academy of Sciences in Moscow.
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