Austrian Mineralogical Society

Austrian Mineralogical Society (ÖMG)
purpose	Promotion of Austrian mineralogy
Chair:	Frank Melcher (President)
Establishment date:	1901 (as the Vienna Mineralogical Society )
Number of members:	approx. 270
Seat :	Vienna
Website:	www.univie.ac.at/OeMG

The Austrian Mineralogical Society , or ÖMG for short  , is the professional representation of mineralogists in Austria .

Structure and tasks

The association is a scientific association for the promotion of the entire mineralogical sciences: mineralogy , crystallography , petrology and geochemistry . The ÖMG currently has around 270 members who can be both natural persons and institutions.

In addition to publication and public relations, she also represents Austria in the International Mineralogical Association  (IMA).

The secretariat of the ÖGG is at the Mineralogical-Petrographic Department of the Natural History Museum Vienna .

history

It was founded in 1901 as the Vienna Mineralogical Society by Friedrich Becke and Friedrich Martin Berwerth and the first president was Gustav Tschermak . It has had its current name since 1950.

Honors awarded

The society awards the Friedrich Becke Medal , named after the mineralogist Friedrich Johann Karl Becke , and the Felix Machatschki Prize .

Honorary members

Franz Angel Karl Franz Johann Chudoba Eberhard Clar Georg Gasser Victor Mordechai Goldschmidt Haymo Heritsch Emilie Jäger Johann von Karabacek Alois Kieslinger Rudolf Koechlin

Karl Kontrus Gero curate Fritz Laves Adolf Lechner Heinz Meixner (mineralogist) Gerhard Niedermayr Ernst Heinrich Niggli Walther E. Petrascheck Anton Preisinger Percy Dudgeon Quensel

Otto Rotky Erich Schroll Hilmar Schumann Vladimir Stepanovich Sobolev Karl Hugo Strunz Eugen Friedrich Stumpfl Ekkehart Tillmanns Miklós Vendel Isidor Weinberger Josef Zemann

Publications

• Announcements of the Austrian Mineralogical Society (Mitt.ÖMG), annually and special volumes, ISSN  1680-8959

The releases appeared:

• Communications from the Vienna Mineralogical Society , publisher: Wiener Mineralogische Gesellschaft, Volume 1–110, Vienna, 1901–1948 / 50

  Supplement to Tschermak's mineralogical and petrographic communications , 1901–1926 and 1948/50 (published 1950)

  Supplement to Mineralogical and Petrographic Communications , 1927–1928

  Supplement to the journal for crystallography, mineralogy and petrography , section B, 1929–1943 (not published in Austria)

• Information from the Austrian Mineralogical Society .

  Supplement to: Tschermaks Mineralogische und Petrographische Mitteilungen , Ed .: Österreichische Mineralogische Gesellschaft, Vol. 111–122, Vienna, 1948/49 (published 1951) - 1969

• Information from the Austrian Mineralogical Society. Ed .: Austrian Mineralogical Society, Volume 123, Vienna, 1970 ff

So far they have been retro-digitized from volume 142 (1997) and are freely accessible.

See also

• Austrian Geological Society
• Austrian Soil Science Society

Web links

• Official website

Individual evidence

1. ↑ currently Montanuniversität Leoben , Chair for Geology and Mineral Resources;
   see board & intern. representation , univie.ac.at/OeMG
2. ↑ List of members , univie.ac.at/OeMG
3. ^ Mineralogical Society , univie.ac.at/OeMG
4. ^ To Mineralogical and Petrological Periodicals from Austria , oeab.at
5. ↑ Communications from the Austrian Mineralogical Society , uibk.ac.at