Axel Born

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Axel Born (born February 5, 1887 in Prenzlau , † September 1, 1935 in Berlin ) was a German geologist and geophysicist and one of the pioneers of applied geophysics in Germany.

Born studied geology and palaeontology in Berlin, Hanover and Göttingen, received his doctorate in 1911 in Göttingen under Josef Felix Pompeckj (The geological conditions of the Upper Devonian in the Aeketal (Upper Harz)) and completed his habilitation in 1913. After the First World War he taught at the University of Frankfurt on Main, where he became associate professor in 1922. From 1926 he was a full professor of geology and paleontology at the Technical University of Berlin-Charlottenburg .

He dealt with applied geology and geophysics, and here with the exploration of the deeper earth's crust in Germany and gravity measurements with the creation of maps of gravity anomalies of Germany and the Iberian Peninsula .

He had been married since 1914 and had two daughters.

Fonts

  • The geological conditions of the Upper Devonian in the Aeketal, New Yearbook for Mineralogy, Geology and Paleontology, Supplements, Volume 34, 1912, 553-632 (his dissertation)
  • The geological structure of the earth, in: Benno Gutenberg , Handbuch der Geophysik, Volume 2.2, Berlin: Borntraeger 1932
  • Isostasis and gravity measurement, Springer 1923
  • General geology and stratigraphy, Dresden: T. Steinkopff 1921
  • On pressure foliation in the Varist mountain body, progress in geology and paleontology, 7, 22, Borntraeger 1929
  • On the formation and decay of continental floes, advances in geology and paleontology, 10, 32, Borntraeger 1933
  • Relationships between gravity and geological structure in Germany, in: Franz Kossmat : Contributions to the problem of the mass distribution in the earth's body, pp. 1–60 (with isoanomal map of Germany)
  • Severity and geological structure of the Iberian Peninsula, in: Abhandlungen der Senckenbergische Naturforschenden Gesellschaft, Volume 39, 1925, pp. 1-25 (panel I: Isanomal map of the Iberian Peninsula, with A. Miethe)

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personal data
SURNAME Born, Axel
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German geologist and geophysicist
DATE OF BIRTH February 5, 1887
PLACE OF BIRTH Prenzlau
DATE OF DEATH September 1, 1935
Place of death Berlin