Dorian G. W. Smith

Dr. Dorian G. W. Smith passed away in 2013. His areas of expertise were mineralogy, meteoritics and microanalysis. He developed sophisticated, multi-media mineral databases and software for mineral identification.

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  1. Dorian Glenn Whitney Smith was my father. As a professor at rhe Uinversity of Alberta he oversaw and managed the first electron microprobe in the Americas. He served as President of the International Mineralogical Association. Between 15 and 20% of all minerals yet identified had their properties described by Dorian G. W. Smith for the first time. He was passionate about the work until the very end.

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