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(Mineralogist) Friedrich Johann Karl Becke was an Austrian mineralogist and petrographer recognized for his studies on rock-forming minerals and their light-refractive characteristics. He served in academic roles such as lecturer on geology at the University of Vienna and held professorships at the University of Czernowitz and Prague before becoming a professor of mineralogy at the University of Vienna. Becke authored various papers in the fields of geology and mineralogy, with his important research findings featured in the Mineralogische und Petrographische Mittheilungen journal.
