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Eugene (Gene) Jarosewich (1926–2007) was a chemist in the department of mineral sciences at the Smithsonian Institution. [1] Jarosewich was known worldwide for wet chemical analyses of meteorites. [2] Working with specimens from the National Mineral Collection, Gene and his co-workers also developed a set of commonly used standards for electron microprobe analyses.
The mineral Jarosewichite [3] and asteroid 4320 Jarosewich [4] are named in his honor.