Heinrich Jacob Goldschmidt, also Heinrich Jakob Goldschmidt (12 April 1857, in

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– 20 September 1937, in

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), was a Jewish Austrian chemist who spent most of his career working in Norway. He studied chemistry at the

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, where he received his PhD in 1881. In the same year, he became professor at the

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, where he worked with

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. In 1888, his son

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was born; Victor later became a renowned mineralogist and founder of modern geochemistry. After working at the

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with Jacobus Henricus van 't Hoff in 1894 and 1895, Heinrich Goldschmidt became full professor at the ETH. He left the ETH in 1901 for the

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. He worked there until his retirement in 1929 at the age of 72. As his son Victor became professor for mineralogy at the

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in 1929, he moved with him to

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, but both had to leave there after the Nazis came to power, and father and son returned to Oslo in 1935. Heinrich Jacob Goldschmidt died in Oslo in 1937. Goldschmidt was the thesis advisor for

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