Addi Bischoff
Addi (Adolf) Bischoff (born April 4, 1955 in Werdohl ) is a German mineralogist and has been a professor at the Institute for Planetology at the Westphalian Wilhelms University in Münster since 1997 .
Studies and teaching
Bischoff studied mineralogy in Münster from 1975 to 1981 and was a research assistant in Dieter Stöffler's group from 1981 to 1985 . Interrupted by some research stays in New Mexico, for example at the Institute of Meteoritics at the University of New Mexico with Klaus Keil , he completed his doctorate on chondritic meteorites in 1985 .
After a research stay at the Max Planck Institute for Chemistry in Mainz with Heinrich Wänke and Herbert Palme (1985), he completed his habilitation again in Münster in 1989. Bischoff was then from 1990 to 1996 as a university lecturer (C2) at the Institute for Planetology at the university Münster busy. After working as a freelance expert (1996–1997), he was appointed as an adjunct professor in Münster in 1997 after being hired again.
Activity in planetology
In the field of planetology , particularly through his research into meteorites found on earth , Bischoff has gained worldwide recognition. Bischoff investigated the formation processes of the first solid components of the solar system and the different effects of collisions in our solar system on meteorites.
Meteorites are fragments of distant celestial bodies that are detached from their mother bodies by impact processes. The meteorite mother bodies also include the moon and Mars. Rock thrown out by impacts can be found and examined on Earth as Mars and lunar meteorites . Bischoff jokingly describes these meteorites as the little man's space probes , which enable the exploration of their composition and formation even without space travel to these celestial bodies.
On the basis of studies on meteoritic breccias , Bischoff investigated the formation and development processes of smaller planetoids in the solar system.
Awards and honors
- 1989: Victor Moritz Goldschmidt Prize of the German Mineralogical Society
- 1993: Albert Maucher Prize for Geosciences from the German Research Foundation (DFG)
- 1998: Appointed Fellow of the Meteoritical Society
- 2006: The International Astronomical Union named the asteroid 6757 (Addibischoff) after him.
- 2015: The newly discovered mineral "Addibischoffite" is named after him.
Publications
- with K. Keil: Al-rich objects in ordinary chondrites. Related origin of carbonaceous and ordinary chondrites and their constituents . In: Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta (Geochim. Cosmochim. Acta) 48, Issue 4, 1984, ISSN 0016-7037 , pp. 693-709, doi : 10.1016 / 0016-7037 (84) 90096-6 .
- with K. Metzler, D. Stöffler: Accretionary dust mantles in CM-chondrites. Evidence for nebula processes . In: Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta (Geochim. Cosmochim. Acta) 56, Issue 7, 1992, ISSN 0016-7037 , pp. 2873-2897, doi : 10.1016 / 0016-7037 (92) 90365-P .
- with ERD Scott, K. Metzler, CA Goodrich: Nature and Origins of meteoritic breccias . In: DS Lauretta and HY McSween Jr. (Eds.): Meteorites and the Early Solar System II . University of Arizona Press, Tucson Az 2006, ISBN 978-0-8165-2562-1 , pp. 679-712.
Individual evidence
- ↑ JPL Small-Body Database Browser . In: nasa.gov .
- ↑ Current reports from the University of Münster . In: uni-muenster.de .
Web links
- Literature by and about Addi Bischoff in the catalog of the German National Library
- Addi Bischoff on the website of the University of Münster
- Addi Bischoff in the research database of the University of Münster
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Bischoff, Addi |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Bischoff, Adolf |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German mineralogist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 4th 1955 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Werdohl , Westphalia |