Charles Henry Behre

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Charles Henry Behre (born March 16, 1896 in Atlanta , † February 18, 1986 in Emerson ) was an American geologist (reservoir geology) and professor at Columbia University .

Life

Behre came from German immigrants in the generation of his grandparents, his father was born in Charleston, his mother was Emilie Schumann. He had three sisters, including a concert pianist and a zoology professor. His father moved the family to New Orleans when he was young, where he owned an ice cream factory. Behre graduated from the University of Wisconsin and the University of Chicago with a bachelor's degree in 1918, then volunteered in the Medical Corps at a military hospital in the southwestern United States during the post-World War I flu pandemic. In 1920 he continued his studies in Chicago, where he turned to geology and received his doctorate in 1925. His dissertation was on a shale deposit in Pennsylvania and was written while working on the side for the Geological Survey of Pennsylvania and being an instructor at Lehigh University. The result was a treatise on the entire slate belt of eastern Pennsylvania which established his reputation (published in Pennsylvania Mineral Resource Bulletin M 16). In 1923 he became an assistant professor at the University of Cincinnati and also worked for the US Geological Survey. In 1930 he became an associate professor and in 1935 a professor at Northwestern University . After his wife became a professor at Columbia University, Behre also moved there in 1941. 1956 to 1959 he was the geology faculty at Columbia University. In addition to his professorship, he had a consulting firm (Behre, Dolbear and Company), with which he was active worldwide (mineral resources, groundwater).

In 1963 he became a member of the Leopoldina . He was President of the Society of Economic Geologists and Vice President of the New York Academy of Sciences . He was a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and a Guggenheim Fellow .

In 1921 he married the biochemist Helen Jeanette Allen. He was a hobby pianist.

Publications

  • Geology and ore deposits of the west slope of the Mosquito Range , Washington: United States Government Printing Office, 1932
  • Mineral deposits of New Jersey and eastern Pennsylvania , Washington: United States Department of the Interior, Geological Survey, Washington: United States Government Printing Office, 1953
  • Slate in Pennsylvania , Harrisburg, Pennsylvania: Pennsylvania Topographic and Geologic Society, 1933
  • Slate in Northampton County, Pennsylvania , Harrisburg, Pennsylvania: Pennsylvania Topographic and Geologic Survey, 1927

Web links

literature

  • Who's Who in America: a biographical dictionary of notable living men and women. : volume 33 (1964-1965), Marquis Who's Who, Chicago, Ill., 1964, p. 143.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ List of members Leopoldina, Charles Henry jr. Keep
personal data
SURNAME Behave, Charles Henry
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American geologist
DATE OF BIRTH March 16, 1896
PLACE OF BIRTH Atlanta
DATE OF DEATH February 18, 1986
Place of death Emerson