Amadeus William Grabau

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Amadeus William Grabau

Amadeus William Grabau (born January 9, 1870 in Cedarburgh (Wisconsin) , † March 20, 1946 in Beijing ) was a German-American paleontologist and geologist .

Life

Amadeus William Grabau was a faculty member at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute . In 1901 Grabau married the Jewish writer Mary Antin and was appointed professor at Columbia University in New York . In 1907 his daughter Josephine Esther was born. In 1919 Grabau was appointed to Peking University . Part of his life's work was the geological mapping of China, so that he became known as the "father of Chinese geology". He was also a prolific writer and published more than ten books in the first half of the 20th century. During his scientific life, Grabau developed several geoscientific theories, including on rhythms in the growth of the earth's crust and on mountain formation .

Syracuse University's Allan Mazur wrote a biography of Grabau and his wife entitled "A Romance in Natural History: The Lives and Works of Amadeus Grabau and Mary Antin."

Memberships

Honors

In 1925 Grabau was elected a member of the Leopoldina . In 1936 Grabau was awarded the Mary Clark Thompson Medal for his services in the field of geology and paleontology . Dorsum Grabau , a mountain ridge of the moon, was named after him .

Fonts

Grabau wrote a number of books:

  • North American Index Fossils (1909, 1910)
  • Principles of Stratigraphy (1913)
  • Textbook of Geology (1920–21) Two volumes
  • Silurian Fossils of Yunnan (1920)
  • Ordovician Fossils of North China (1921)
  • Paleozoic Corals of China (1921)
  • Stratigraphy of China (1924-25)
  • Migration of Geosynclines (1924)
  • Early Permian Fossils of China (1934)
  • Rhythm of the Ages (1940)

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b Mary Antin: The Promised Land
  2. ^ Palaeontological Journal 1, Issue 1, March 1914
  3. ^ Winner of the Mary Clark Thompson Medal, National Academy of Science ( Memento December 8, 2015 in the Internet Archive )
  4. ↑ Amadeus William Grabau , Encyclopedia Britannica

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personal data
SURNAME Grabau, Amadeus William
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German-American paleontologist and geologist
DATE OF BIRTH January 9, 1870
PLACE OF BIRTH Cedarburgh, Wisconsin
DATE OF DEATH March 20, 1946
Place of death Beijing