Abraham Gottlob Werner Medal

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The DMG Abraham Gottlob Werner Medal is the highest award of the German Mineralogical Society (DMG). They are available in gold and silver levels. The silver medal, which is awarded annually, honors individuals who have achieved outstanding scientific achievements. The gold medal, which is awarded irregularly, is given to people who have made great contributions to the promotion of mineralogy. The medal was donated in 1950 and awarded for the first time in 1951. It is named after Abraham Gottlob Werner , one of the founders of geology and mineralogy .

The Abraham-Gottlob-Werner medal of the same name and the Abraham-Gottlob-Werner badge of honor of the DGG were awarded from 1979 to 2011 by the German Geological Society (then the Society for Geological Sciences of the GDR ) for outstanding achievements in geoscientific sub-disciplines or for the DGG .

Abraham Gottlob Werner Medal from DMG

Appearance

The Abraham Gottlob Werner Medal bears the portrait, name and life dates of Abraham Gottlob Werner on the front and a stylized representation of basalt columns and the inscription BENE MERENTIUM PRAEMIUM and “Deutsche Mineralogische Gesellschaft” on the reverse . The medal is minted in gold or silver and has a diameter of 40 mm. The holder's name and the year of award are engraved on the outer edge.

In the first few years only a gold medal was awarded, which had an image of Werner on the obverse and the name of the recipient on the reverse. Therefore the award was made after the fact.

Award winners

  • 2019 silver: Donald Bruce Dingwell (Munich) for his scientific achievements in volcanology and magmatic petrology
  • 2018 Silver: Ulrich Bismayer (Hamburg) for his pioneering work in the field of hard-mode Raman spectroscopy
  • 2017 Silver: Joseph R. Smyth (Boulder, Colorado) for fundamental research on the role of water in nominally anhydrous minerals and the global hydrological cycle
  • 2016 Silver: Gerhard Brey (Frankfurt) in recognition of his outstanding achievements and services in the mineralogical sciences
  • 2015 Silver: Albrecht W. Hofmann (New York) for his pioneering research in the field of geochemistry and development of the earth's mantle
  • 2014 Silver: Klaus Keil (Honolulu) for his research on the mineralogy and geochemistry of extraterrestrial material
  • 2013 Gold: Heidi Höfer (Frankfurt) for her many years of voluntary work as press spokeswoman for DMG
  • 2013 Silver: François Holtz (Hanover) for his work in the field of experimental petrology
  • 2012 Silver: Bernhard J. Wood (Oxford) for his work in the field of experimental and theoretical petrology, geochemistry and mineralogy as well as the thermodynamic properties of minerals and fluids
  • 2011 Silver: Herbert Palme (Cologne)
  • 2010 Silver: Hans-Rudolf Wenk (Berkeley) for mineralogical research on rock deformation and defect analysis of minerals
  • 2009 Silver: Andrew Putnis (Münster) for research in the field of phase changes and mineral-fluid interactions
  • 2008 Silver: Martin Okrusch (Würzburg) for research in the field of regional petrography
  • 2008 Silver: David C. Rubie (Bayreuth) for research on the kinetics of metamorphic reactions and the relationship between rheology and transformation plasticity
  • 2007 Silver: Herbert Kroll (Münster) for research on the understanding of mixed crystal formation, metrics, structure, thermodynamics, on the synthesis and on the order / disorder behavior of model minerals
  • 2006 Silver: Jochen Hoefs (Göttingen) for work on understanding the isotope geochemistry of the elements hydrogen, lithium, carbon, oxygen and sulfur
  • 2005 not awarded
  • 2004 Silver: Friedrich Seifert (Bayreuth) for work on experimental and theoretical petrology and the spectroscopy of minerals and silicate melts
  • 2003 Silver: Ahmed El Goresy (Mainz) for mineralogy of extraterrestrial rocks
  • 2002 Silver: Volkmar Trommsdorff (Zurich) for petrology of igneous rocks, especially of the Alps
  • 1999 Gold: Hans-Dietrich Maronde (Bonn) for services to the promotion of the mineralogical sciences as a specialist at the DFG
  • 1999 Silver: Heinrich Wänke (Mainz) for services in geochemistry and cosmochemistry
  • 1998 Silver: David Headley Green (Canberra) for services in petrology
  • 1997 Silver: Theo Hahn (Aachen) for his achievements in crystallography
  • 1996 Silver: Karl Hans Wedepohl (Göttingen) for his work in the field of geochemistry and at the same time for his services to the promotion of mineralogical science
  • 1995 Gold: Günther Friedrich (Aachen) for the promotion of mineralogical science as well as his scientific work in the fields of mineralogy and the theory of deposits
  • 1994 Silver: Ekhard Salje (Cambridge) for his achievements in the field of crystallography and mineralogy
  • 1993 Silver: Zdeněk Johan (Orléans) for his achievements in the field of mineralogically oriented deposit research
  • 1991 Silver: Werner Schreyer (Bochum) for his achievements in the field of experimental mineralogy and petrology and the application of the results to natural rocks
  • 1990 Silver: Friedrich Liebau (Kiel) for his achievements in the field of mineralogy
  • 1987 Silver: Peter John Wyllie (Pasadena) for his achievements in the field of experimental and theoretical petrology
  • 1986 silver: Pieter Maarten de Wolff (1919–1998)
  • 1985 Silver: Edwin Woods Roedder (1919–2006) for his research on fluid inclusions in minerals
  • 1984 silver: Josef Zemann (Vienna)
  • 1984 Silver: Albert Fahrtisen (Bern) for his successes on the systematics of igneous rocks
  • 1983 Silver: André Guinier (Paris) for his work in the field of theoretical and experimental methods of investigation of diffuse scattering of X-rays
  • 1983 Karl Jasmund
  • 1981 Silver: Heinz Jagodzinski (Munich)
  • 1980 silver: Wolf von Engelhardt
  • 1977 gold: Franz K. Goerlich
  • 1977 Silver: Helmut GF Winkler
  • 1976 Silver: Karl Richard Mehnert for the petrographic and geochemical research into the rocks that make up the deep basement
  • 1973 S. Yoder
  • 1971 Silver: Fritz Laves (Zurich) for his work in the field of the structures of metallic compounds and feldspars
  • 1970 Eduard Wenk
  • 1966 Gold: Erich Schott (Mainz) for his services to glass research and technology, his efforts to maintain and promote the natural sciences and his work as a mediator between science and technology
  • 1964 Bruno Sander
  • 1961 Alfred Lange
  • 1953 Hennecke , Director, for his services to the development of the East Bavarian mining industry and DMG
  • 1952 Erich Enzmann , General Director Maxhütte, for his services to the development of the East Bavarian mining industry
  • 1951 Wilhelm de la Sauce
  • 1951 Reinhard Wüster (1892–1954)

Abraham Gottlob Werner Medal of the DGG

From 1979 to 2011 an Abraham Gottlob Werner Medal was awarded by the German Geological Society (at that time the Society for Geological Sciences of the GDR ) to honor outstanding achievements in geoscientific sub-disciplines or for the DGG. This also awarded an Abraham Gottlob Werner badge of honor .

Award winners

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Advances in Mineralogy, 1951, Vol. 29 and 30, p. 3
  2. ^ Progress of Mineralogy, 1952, Vol. 29 and 30, p. 384
  3. ↑ §5. of the statutes of the Abraham Gottlob Werner Medal
  4. ↑ The bleed . 1952. p. Ii
  5. ↑ Donald Bruce Dingwell receives the Abraham Gottlob Werner Medal. In: leopoldina.org. Leopoldina , September 13, 2019, accessed on January 3, 2020 .
  6. ^ Roebling Medal to Yoder, PDF
  7. ↑ Basel City Archives, Wenk estate
  8. ^ Fritz Pudor: Pictures of life from the Rhenish-Westphalian industrial area. Nomos. 1955. p. 47
  9. ^ * Abraham Gottlob Werner Medal of the DGG and the Abraham Gottlob Werner badge of honor , German Geological Society - Geological Association

literature

  • Statutes of the Abraham Gottlob Werner Medal . In: Advances in Mineralogy . tape 41 , no. 2 , 1964, p. 143 f . (including a picture of the front and back of the medal).

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