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Heinrich Holland

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Heinrich Holland · Science & Medicine

What

Geochemist, leading authority on the chemical evolution of Earth's atmosphere and oceans

When

1927, Mannheim, Germany — 2012, United States

Where

Germany · United States

Biography

Heinrich Holland is recognized among Jewish contributors to Science & Medicine — Geochemist, leading authority on the chemical evolution of Earth's atmosphere and oceans

How & why

Holland was a geochemist, born to Jewish parents in Mannheim, who escaped Nazi Germany by Kindertransport and became a leading authority on the chemical evolution of Earth's atmosphere and oceans, especially the Great Oxidation Event. He taught at Princeton and Harvard and edited the Treatise on Geochemistry. He was born into a Jewish family.

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Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Earth & Planetary Science

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Geochemist, leading authority on the chemical evolution of Earth's atmosphere and oceans

1927

Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Earth & Planetary Science