Frederick Wilhelm Kegel

Friedrich Wilhelm Kegel (?-1948), from 1922 to 1938 director of the of mining operations at Tsumeb mine, Namibia.

The mineral Kegelite, discovered in the Tsumeb mine, was named after him [ [http://www.handbookofmineralogy.org/pdfs/Kegelite.PDF handbookofmineralogy.org: "Kegelite"] ] [ [http://www.webmineral.com/data/Kegelite.shtml webmineral.com: "Kegelite"] ] .

He took the first pubblished photograpy of the Hoba meteorite ["The Mineralogical Magazine and Journal of the Mineralogic Society", [http://giantcrystals.strahlen.org/library/hoba.pdf No. 136. March, 1932. Vol. XXIII] , p.4] .

References

ee also

* Kegelite
* Tsumeb
* Otavi Mining and Railway Company
* Hoba meteorite

External links

* [http://bancroft.geol.ucsb.edu/-Background/50-Background/50-Background-a.html geol.ucsb.edu: a photo of Friedrich Wilhelm Kegel]