Angela Marie Breithaupt Firestone is an American Scientist, naturalist and author. She has co-published in scientific journals and publications. Born in Grand Haven, Michigan and raised in Traverse City, Michigan, she received her BA degree from Albion College in Geological Sciences. She worked and studied at the University of Michigan in the Geology Department, researching and studying fluid inclusions of Mississippi Valley Type Deposits under the guidance of Stephen Kesler. She also measured the stable isotopes from Archean Greenstone Gold Deposits, and assisted in preparing Lunar basalt samples for Argon/Argon analysis under the guidance of Sir Alexander Halliday FRS.

 

Firestone worked at The Cranbrook Institute of Science under the guidance of Daniel Appleman, as Assistant Curator of the Mineralogy and Geology Collections. While at The Cranbook Institute of Science she organized the mineral and geology collections onto a database and was responsible for the specimen installation of the New Mineral Hall designed by Architect Steven Holl. She also collaborated with Jeffrey Post at the National Museum, The Smithsonian.

 

Angela became the Curator of Mineralogy at Cranbrook securing the Red Rhodochrosite specimen from the Sweet Home Mine of Colorado from donor Brian Lees, a crown jewel bequeathed to Cranbrook’s World Class Mineral Collection. She resigned in 2000 to get married and moved to Tucson, Arizona where she continued her profession in Curating Minerals privately, building museum quality collections for collectors in the southwestern region of the United States.

 

Later in life, she moved to East Hampton, New York and continued to be involved in minerals, with a research appointment at the Harvard University, Earth and Planetary Sciences. She founded Firestone Research Productions and later attended Harvard Business School Analytical Program. She is married to gallerist Eric Firestone, they have one daughter.