Wilhelm Haidinger, Austrian mineralogist, geologist and physicist, 1871. In 1840 Haidinger (1795-1871) was appointed Counsellor of Mines, in Vienna. In 1849 he became director of the Austrian Imperial Geological Institute. From the obverse of a commemorative medal.
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