Местоположение издательства:CASELLA POSTALE 66 VIUZZO DELPOZZETTO, FLORENCE, ITALY, I-50126
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Аннотация:Alexander Fersman traveled to the Island of Elba (Italy) in the spring of1908. He explored the island in search of a range of minerals and ores and especiallypegmatite veins. It was his first independent scientific expedition and research project.He had completed his university education and worked under the tutelage of VladimirVernadsky, did an internship with Heinrich Rosenbusch, Victor Mordechai Goldschmidt,and Alfred Lacroix. The Island of Elba is well known for its abundance of interesting andrare minerals and Fersman dreamed about going to visit it. He studied museum samplesand publications about Elba. His visit served him as a model and a reference for his furtherresearch of pegmatites. It gave him practical understanding and set a goal for his studies ofmineralogical processes and geochemistry. Fersman published three papers about Elba’sminerals in Russian and used his own data in other publications. His Elba collection is stillimportant for mineralogists and historians of science and is exhibited in the Fersman Mineralogical Museum of the Russian Academy of Sciences in Moscow.