Adolf Pabst

Adolf Pabst (born November 30, 1899 in Chicago , Illinois , † April 3, 1990 in Berkeley , California ) was an American mineralogist and geologist .

Life

Pabst studied at the University of Illinois ( Bachelor 1925) geology and mineralogy at the University of California, Berkeley , where he received his doctorate in 1928 under George D. Louderbeck with a thesis on mineral inclusions in the granite plutons of the Sierra Nevada. As a post-doctoral student he studied with Victor Moritz Goldschmidt in Oslo , where he also met his wife Gudrun Lisabeth Bert. After returning to Berkeley, he became an instructor in 1929 , assistant professor in 1931 and professor in 1944. In 1938/39 he was a Guggenheim Fellow at the Natural History Museum in London and 1955/56 as a Fulbright Fellow at the University of Vienna . In 1967 he retired, but continued to research at the university and published regularly until 1984. He was visiting professor of mineralogy and crystallography at the University of Nevada at Reno in 1967/68 and professor of mineralogy at the University of Oregon in 1968/69 . He was also a Fulbright visiting professor at the universities of Berlin and Kiel in 1970/71.

Pabst was for many years the associate editor of the American Mineralogist . He is considered to be the first to describe various minerals such as Huttonite , Kogarkoite and Macdonaldite .

Honors and memberships

Pabst was a member of the Mineralogical Society of London and President of the Mineralogical Society of America in 1961 , President of the International Mineralogical Association in 1980 and President of the Crystallographic Society of America in 1948/49 . In 1967 he became a Fellow of the California Academy of Sciences. He was an honorary member of the German Mineralogical Society (1971).

In 1974 he received the Friedrich Becke Medal and in 1965 the Roebling Medal .

The mineral pabstit (a ring silicate of the benitoite group ) is named in his honor.

Web links

• Garniss H. Curtis , Bruce A. Bolt, John Verhoogen: Adolf Pabst, Geology: Berkeley. In: David Krogh (Ed.): University of California: In Memoriam, 1990. Academic Senate, University of California, pp. 75-77