Bohuslav Cambel
Bohuslav Cambel (born November 29, 1919 in Slovenská Ľupča , Slovakia; † June 9, 2006 in Bratislava ) was a Slovak geologist and university professor.
Bohuslav Cambel attended elementary school in Slovenská Ľupča, where he was born, and high school in Banská Bystrica until 1939.
In 1939 he began studying science. From 1943 after the first state examination he was an assistant at the mineralogical institute and graduated with a doctorate in 1949.
After founding the geological-geographic faculty, he became assistant to the dean in 1952 . From 1958 to 1964 he was director of the Research Institute for Geology and Geography. From 1953 to 1957 he was also the deputy rector of the Comenius University in Bratislava .
During his university career, he also held various positions in the Ministry of Education.
In 1963, on behalf of the Slovak Academy of Sciences (SAV), he reorganized its Geological Institute and expanded it to include mineralogy, petroleum and metallurgy. From 1964 he was a corresponding member of the Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences (ČSAV) .
From 1966 to 1969 he was rector at Comenius University, where he also intensified cooperation between the academy and the university. In 1969 he installed a new department for geochemistry, which he headed until 1980. He also headed the geochemistry division of the Geological Association of the Carpathians and Balkans ( CBGA ) for a long time . As an author he wrote in geological journals such as Acta geologica , Minierlia slovaca .
Cambel was also active internationally. He organized the international conferences in Japan and France and organized joint excursions to the Alps and Carpathians with the Austrian Geological Society .
Awards
- Medal of the Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg (1967)
- Honorary doctorate from the University of Kiev (1968)
- Wheel práce 1968
- Klement Gottwald State Prize (1979)
- numerous awards from domestic and foreign universities
- In 1998, Cambel was mentioned in the University of Cambridge's book of the 2000 Most Important Scientists of the 20th Century .
Individual evidence
- ↑ osobnosti.sk: Prof. RNDr. Bohuslav Cambel DrSc. , accessed March 14, 2012
- ↑ Comenius University Bratislava: Prof. RNDr. Bohuslav Cambel, DrSc. ( Memento of February 21, 2014 in the Internet Archive ), accessed on March 14, 2012.
Web links
- M. Háber: Academician Prof. RNDr. Bohuslav Cambel, DrSc. ( Memento of October 7, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) (English; PDF; 134 kB)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Cambel, Bohuslav |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Slovak geologist and university professor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 29, 1919 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Slovenská Ľupča , Slovakia |
| DATE OF DEATH | June 9, 2006 |
| Place of death | Bratislava |