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The History of the Name Widmanstätten: A Few Previously Unpublished Facts
Author(s) -
Paneth F. A.
Publication year - 1938
Publication title -
contributions of the society for research on meteorites
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1945-5100
pISSN - 0096-2813
DOI - 10.1111/j.1945-5100.1938.tb00195.x
Subject(s) - reflexive pronoun , spelling , irony , literature , genealogy , proper noun , history , art , philosophy , linguistics
Extensive historical investigations have shown that the discoverer of the etching figures characteristic of many irony meteorites called himself “Widmanstätten”; accordingly, there is no reason to deviate from this spelling, since the man himself employed it. Indeed, it would be an historical falsification to use any other form, even though the family of Widmanstätten does use today the name “Beckh‐Widmanstetter.”