Conrad Burri

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Conrad Burri (born May 22, 1900 in Bern ; † June 16, 1987 there , entitled to reside in Bern and Malters ) was a Swiss mineralogist .

Life

Conrad Burri was born on May 22, 1900 in Bern as the son of the bacteriologist Robert Burri . The graduate of a grammar school in Bern studied chemistry at the ETH Zurich from 1920 , and from 1922 he studied mineralogy and petrography at the universities of Zurich and Bern , which he obtained in 1926 with the academic degree of Dr. phil. graduated in Zurich.

Immediately afterwards , Conrad Burri took up assistant positions at the University of Freiburg , then from 1927 at the ETH Zurich. After his habilitation there in 1929, Burri initially taught from 1932 to 1953 as an associate professor, before holding the chair for special mineralogy and petrography until 1970, and from 1963 for petrography. At the same time, Conrad Burri worked as a full professor at the University of Zurich from 1954 to 1970.

Conrad Burri was married to Maria Henriette, nee Kircheisen. He died on June 16, 1987, four weeks after he had turned 87 in Bern.

Act

Conrad Burri, who wrote over a hundred publications and monographs , made fundamental contributions to the petrography and geochemistry of igneous rocks as well as to methods of crystal optics .

Works (selection)

  • The polarizing microscope, 1950
  • Petrochemical calculation methods on an equivalent basis, 1959

archive

literature

  • Arnold Stahel: "Conrad Burri 1900–1987", In: Swiss mineralogical and petrographic messages 67, 1987, p. 367 f.

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personal data
SURNAME Burri, Conrad
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss mineralogist
DATE OF BIRTH May 22, 1900
PLACE OF BIRTH Bern
DATE OF DEATH June 16, 1987
Place of death Bern