Ernest Henry Nickel, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Ernest Henry Nickel

Australian-Canadian mineralogist, CSIRO-Exploration & Mining

Date of Birth: 31-Aug-1925

Place of Birth: Louth, St. Catharines, Ontario, Canada

Date of Death: 18-Jul-2009

Profession: mineralogist

Nationality: Canada, Australia

Zodiac Sign: Virgo

Ernest (Ernie) Henry Nickel (born Ernst Heinrich Nickel on 31 August 1925 in Louth, Ontario, died on 18 July 2009) was a mineralogist from Canada that emigrated to Australia.
He is best known as an editor of the ninth edition of the Nickel-Strunz classification together with Karl Hugo Strunz.