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Gübelin’s contribution is a commemorative tribute to the German mineralogist Hugo Strunz on his seventieth birthday (24 February 1980), rather than a gemological research paper. It concerns Strunz’s career and scientific contributions, particularly his work in mineralogy, crystallography, and crystal chemistry and the systematic classification of minerals for which he became internationally known; Strunz had retired from his chair at the Technical University of Berlin in 1978 after a long academic career and had produced roughly 200 scientific publications.