Education
He received his Bachelor"s, Master"s and Doctoral degrees from the Johns Hopkins University, completing his Doctor of Philosophy in 1940.
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After receiving his degree, he worked for the General Electric Company as a research chemist in Pittsfield, Massachusetts. The Laboratory was responsible for developing a super-conducting bolometer for the detection of infrared radiation. From 1946–1949 he was group leader for X-ray crystallography at the American Cyanamid Company in Stamford, Connecticut.
He was an employee of the Geological Survey from October, 1949 until his retirement in 1979.
His research focused on minerals containing uranium, vanadium, and various rare elements. He was especially interested in hydrated borate minerals because of the crystal-chemical challenge they present.
He was a Professorial Lecturer at the George Washington University in Washington, District of Columbia from 1956 to 1965. In 1960, he published a set of rules governing the formation of complex borate polyanions that became known as Christ"s Rules.
In 1965, he moved from Washington, District of Columbia to the Geological Survey"s offices in Menlo Park, California.
He was a Fellow of the Mineralogical Society of America and the Geological Society of America. He was an Associate Editor for The American Mineralogist from 1955–1959. In 1972 he was a visiting professor at the University of Hawaii.
1959 – Rockefeller Public Service Award.
