Albrecht W. Hofmann

Albrecht W. Hofmann, 2018

Albrecht W. Hofmann (born March 11, 1939 in Zeitz ) is a German geochemist .

Life

Hofmann graduated from high school in Ravensburg . He then studied for a year at Duke University in Durham (North Carolina) , USA, then further geology at the University of Freiburg . He then studied geochemistry with minor subjects mineralogy and thermodynamics at Brown University in Providence, where he worked with Bruno J. Giletti with the thesis Hydrothermal experiments on equilibrium partitioning and diffusion kinetics of Rb, Sr, and Na in biotite - alkali chloride solution systems PhD .

Scientifically, Hofmann mainly dealt with the isotope and trace element geochemistry of the earth's mantle and crust.

After completing his doctorate, he worked for two years as an assistant at the Laboratory for Geochronology in Heidelberg, and then for ten years until 1980 as a staff scientist at the Carnegie Institution in Washington / DC. In 1980 he was appointed Scientific Member of the Max Planck Society at the Max Planck Institute for Chemistry in Mainz , where he set up the new Geochemistry Department, which he headed until his retirement in 2007.

Since his retirement he has worked as Adjunct Professor and Visiting Senior Research Scientist at the Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory , Columbia University, New York, and as Adjunct Professor at the University of Nanjing, China.

Hofmann was a founding member and temporarily president of the European Union of Geosciences , a scientific society with 3000 members. In 2014 he was the author of around 230 scientific publications.

Awards

• 1994 Fellow of the American Geophysical Union
• 1994 Chevalier de l ' Ordre des Palmes Académiques
• 1996 Humboldt Research Prize from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation
• 1996 VM Goldschmidt Award from the Geochemical Society
• 1996 Geochemistry Fellow of the European Association of Geochemistry and the Geochemical Society
• 1999 Foreign member of the National Academy of Sciences
• 1999 Fellow of the Geological Society of America
• 2001 Harry H. Hess Medal from the American Geophysical Union
• 2011 Horace Mann Medal from Brown University , Providence, Rhode Island.
• 2015 Urey Award from the European Association of Geochemistry
• 2015 Abraham-Gottlob-Werner-Medal in silver of the German Mineralogical Society
• 2018 Foreign member of the Royal Society

Publications (selection)

• AW Hofmann, WM White: Mantle plumes from ancient oceanic crust. Earth planet. Sci. Lett. Volume 57, 1982, pp. 421-436.
• WM White, AW Hofmann: Sr and Nd isotope geochemistry of oceanic basalts and mantle evolution. In: Nature. Volume 296, 1982, pp. 821-825.
• KP Jochum, AW Hofmann, E. Ito, HM Seufert, WM White: K, U, and Th in MORB glasses and heat production, K / U and K / Rb in the mantle. In: Nature. Volume 306, 1983, pp. 431-436.
• AW Hofmann, K.-P. Jochum, M. Seufert, WM White: Nb and Pb in oceanic basalts: new constraints on mantle evolution. In: Earth Planet. Sci. Lett. Volume 79, 1986, pp. 33-45.
• AW Hofmann: Chemical differentiation of the Earth, the relationship between mantle, continental crust, and oceanic crust. In: Earth Planet. Sci. Lett. Volume 90, 1988, pp. 297-314.
• C. Chauvel, AW Hofmann, P. Vidal: HIMU - EM: The French Polynesian connection. In: Earth Planet. Sci. Lett. Volume 110, 1992, pp. 99-119.
• M. Stein, AW Hofmann: Fossil plumes beneath the Arabian lithosphere? Earth planet. Sci. Lett. Volume 114, 1992, pp. 193-209.
• M. Stein, AW Hofmann: Mantle plumes and episodic crustal growth. In: Nature. Volume 372, 1994, pp. 63-68.
• UR Christensen, AW Hofmann: Segregation of subducted oceanic crust in the convecting mantle. In: J. Geophys. Res. Vol 99, No. B10, 1994, pp. 19867-19884.
• C. Chauvel, SL Goldstein, AW Hofmann: Hydration and dehydration of oceanic crust controls Pb evolution in the mantle. In: Chemical Geology. Volume 126, 1995, pp. 65-75.
• AW Hofmann: Mantle geochemistry - the message from oceanic volcanism. In: Nature. Volume 385, 1997, pp. 219-229.
• AV Sobolev, AW Hofmann, IK Nikogosian: Recycled oceanic crust observed in 'ghost plagioclase' within the source of Mauna Loa lavas. In: Nature. Volume 404, 2000, pp. 986-990.
• E. Hellebrand, JE Snow, HJB Dick, AW Hofmann: Coupled major and trace elements as indicators of the extent of melting in mid-ocean-ridge peridotites. In: Nature. Volume 410, 2001, pp. 677-681.
• A. Polat, AW Hofmann, MT Rosing: Boninite-like volcanic rocks in the 3.7-3.8 Ga Isua greenstone belt, West Greenland: Geochemical evidence for intra-oceanic subduction zone processes in the early Earth. In: Chem. Geol. Volume 184, 2002, pp. 231-254.
• J. Eisele, M. Sharma, SJG Galer, J. Blichert-Toft, CW Devey, AW Hofmann: The role of sediment recycling in EM-1 inferred from Os, Pb, Hf, Nd, Sr isotope and trace element systematics of the Pitcairn hotspot. In: Earth Planet. Sci. Lett. Volume 196, 2002, pp. 197-212.
• AW Hofmann: Sampling mantle heterogeneity through oceanic basalts: Isotopes and trace elements 2.03. In: H. Holland, KK Turekian (Ed.): Treatise on Geochemistry. Volume 2: The mantle and core. Elsevier-Pergamon, Oxford 2004, ISBN 0-08-044848-8 , pp. 67-101.
• I. Tolstikhin, AW Hofmann: Early crust on top of the Earth's core. In: Phys. Earth planet. Interiors. Volume 148, 2005, pp. 109-130.
• AV Sobolev, AW Hofmann, SV Sobolev, IK Nikogosian: An olivine-free mantle source of Hawaiian shield basalts. In: Nature. Volume 434, 2005, pp. 590-597.
• W. Abouchami, AW Hofmann, SJG Galer, FA Frey, J. Eisele, M. Feigenson: Lead isotopes reveal bilateral asymmetry and vertical continuity in the Hawaiian mantle plume. In: Nature. Volume 434, 2005, pp. 851-856.
• AV Sobolev, AW Hofmann, DV Kuzmin, GM Yaxley, NT Arndt, S.-L. Chung, LV Danyushevsky, T. Elliott, FA Frey, MO Garcia, AA Gurenko, VS Kamenetsky, AC Kerr, NA Krivolutskaya, VV Matvienkov, IK Nikogosian, A. Rocholl, IA Sigurdsson, NM Sushchevskaya, M. Teklay: The Amount of Recycled Crust in Sources of Mantle-Derived Melts. In: Science. Volume 316, 2007, pp. 412-417.
• CG Farnetani, AW Hofmann: Dynamics and internal structure of the Hawaiian plume. In: Earth Planet Sci. Lett. Volume 295, 2010, pp. 231-240. doi: 10.1016 / j.epsl.2010.04.005 .
• AW Hofmann, CG Farnetani, M. Spiegelman, C. Class: Displaced helium and carbon in the Hawaiian plume. In: Earth Planet. Sci. Lett. Volume 312, 2011, pp. 226-236.
• CG Farnetani, AW Hofmann, C. Class: How double volcanic chains sample geochemical anomalies from the lowermost mantle. In: Earth Planet. Sci. Lett. Volume 359-360, 2012, pp. 240-247.
• AW Hofmann, CG Farnetani: Two views of Hawaiian plume structure. In: Geochem. Geophys. Geosyst. Volume 14, 2013, pp. 5308-5322.

literature

• Max Planck Society: Manual of Scientific Members , Munich 2006, page 100 (German and English data about Hofmann)

Web links

• Press release on the 60th birthday of Albrecht W. Hofmann
• The Max Planck Institute for Chemistry honors Albrecht Hofmann: Symposium on the retirement of the geochemist (2007)
• Profile of Hofmann at Researchgate

Individual evidence

1. ^ Biographical data, publications and academic family tree of Albrecht W. Hofmann at academictree.org, accessed on February 12, 2018.