Charles L. Christ

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Charles Louis Christ (March 12, 1916 – June 29, 1980) was an American

Education

He received his Bachelor's, Master's and Doctoral degrees from the Johns Hopkins University, completing his Ph.D. in 1940.

Career

After receiving his degree, he worked for the General Electric Company as a research chemist in Pittsfield, Massachusetts. In September, 1941 he returned to academia as an instructor at Wesleyan University. From 1942 to 1945 he returned to Hopkins as an instructor and associate director of their C.Y. War Research Laboratory. The Laboratory was responsible for developing a super-conducting bolometer for the detection of infrared radiation. From 1946 to 1949 he was group leader for X-ray crystallography at the American Cyanamid Company in Stamford, Connecticut.

He was an employee of the

He was a Fellow of the Mineralogical Society of America and the Geological Society of America. He was an associate editor for The American Mineralogist from 1955 to 1959. In 1972 he was a visiting professor at the

Awards and honors

• 1959 – Rockefeller Public Service Award
• In 1977, a new thallium mineral from the Carlin, Nevada, gold deposit, was named Christite in his honor^[2]

Publications

• Solutions, Minerals, and Equilibria with
  ISBN 0-86720-148-7
  (1990 ed.)
• Behavior of Colorado Plateau uranium minerals during oxidation[
  U.S. Geological Survey
  Trace Elements Investigations Report No. 588 (1956)
• Some observations on rutherfordine[
  U.S. Geological Survey
  Trace Elements Investigations Report No. 584 (1956)
• Mineralogical applications of electron diffraction. I. Theory and techniques[
  U.S. Geological Survey
  Trace Elements Investigations Report No. 597 (1958)
• The crystal structure of potassium metavanadate monohydrate, KVO3*H2O with Joan R. Clark and H.T. Evans, Jr.
  U.S. Geological Survey
  Trace Elements Investigations Report No 406 (1954)