Word: mineralogist
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...then took Donald and the hunk of metal to Albert Law, editor of the Dalhart Texan. Law, in the belief that it might be a meteorite, sent it to the University of New Mexico to have it analyzed by Astronomer Lincoln La Paz, and his research associate, Mineralogist Carl W. Beck. With a vanadium steel chisel and a four-pound jackhammer, La Paz succeeded in breaking off a piece the size of a pea. Beck found that the substance had a density of 18.63 (density of lead: 11.34). A commercial chemist in Albuquerque confirmed their suspicions that the chunk...