Word: minerologist
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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’s wife, Judith, a fellow minerologist and frequent collaborator, said that he maintained his sense of humor even as he struggled with Alzheimer’s disease. She said that in his final days he was visited by a steady procession of workers from his nursing home, coming to say goodbye to “their professor...
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