Friedrich Rinne

From 1880 he studied natural sciences at the University of Göttingen, where he was a pupil of Adolf von Koenen.

[1] Today, the Friedrich-Rinne-Preis is awarded to outstanding dissertation theses in the field of mineralogy at the universities of Freiburg, Göttingen and Leipzig.

[3] He is remembered for his application of quantitative physical-mechanical and physicochemical techniques to geosciences.

Encouraged by the work of Hendrik Enno Boeke and Jacobus Henricus van't Hoff, he founded the discipline of Salzpetrographie (salt petrography).

[5] His book, Die Kristalle als Vorbilder des feinbaulichen Wesens der Materie (1921), was translated into English and published with the title "Crystals and the fine-structure of matter" (translated by Walter S. Stiles, 1922).