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Among students and colleagues, Frondel was well-known for his quirky sense of humor and many practical jokes...
...Clifford Frondel, a pioneering minerologist who was part of the team that first studied the moon rocks brought to earth by Apollo 11, died last Tuesday in Winchester, Mass., from complications due to Alzheimer’s disease...
...Frondel, who taught at Harvard from 1939 to 1977 and served as chair of the geological sciences department for four years, was one of the preeminent minerologists of the twentieth century. His subjects ranged from moon rocks to kidney stones, and he was credited with discovering 48 minerals...
Marvin recalled presenting Frondel with a piece of wood streaked with paint, on which she had constructed a molecular model. Frondel, an art collector, had the wood framed and hung it in his home, convincing his wife that it was a work by Jackson Pollock...
...glassy spheroids seemingly strewn across Asia and Australia from space, were also once thought to be splash droplets from some very large meteor hitting the moon. Now, because no lunar material resembles tektite glass in composition, most scientists agree that the tektites do not have a lunar origin. Instead, Frondel said. "It looks more and more that they may be of terrestrial origin." However, no definite theory such as the splash droplet theory for the glass beads on the moon, has been developed to explain the tektites' origin or formation...