Danie G. Krige

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Danie Gerhardus Krige (born August 26, 1919 in the province of Orange Free State ; † March 3, 2013 in Johannesburg ) was a South African geostatist who worked as a professor at the Witwatersrand University in Johannesburg. At the beginning of the 1950s he developed the basics of geostatistics on the basis of empirical data from gold mining. The technique of kriging is named after him. Kriges empirical work on the estimation of mineral resources was formalized in the 1960s by the French Georges Matheron .

In 1987 Krige received the Daniel C. Jackling Prize from the Society for Mining, Metallurgy & Exploration , and in 1998 he received the John FW Herschel Medal from the Royal Society of South Africa , which has been awarded for outstanding services to science since 1983. From 1991 to 1993 he was President of APCOM and from 1996 to 2000 he was a board member of the International Association of Mathematical Geosciences . He was an honorary member of the Council of the Geostatistical Association of Southern Africa . In 2012 he received the Order of the Baobab in silver.

Fonts

  • A statistical approach to some basic mine valuation problems on the Witwatersrand. J. of the Chem., Metal. and Mining Soc. of South Africa 52 (6): 119-139, 1951
  • Geostatistics and the Definition of Uncertainty. Trans. Inst. Mining Metallurgy 93: A41-A47, 1984

literature

  • Georges Matheron: Traité de géostatistique appliquée . Editions Technip, 1962
  • Hikmet Akin, Heinrich Siemes: Practical geostatistics . Springer-Verlag, 1988, ISBN 3-540-19085-6 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Mathilde Myburgh: Engineering Pioneer ( Memento of the original from December 6, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Obituary on looklocal.co.za, March 18, 2013. Retrieved April 17, 2013. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.looklocal.co.za
  2. ↑ Obituary
  3. ↑ List of the award winners ( Memento of the original from June 1, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.smenet.org
  4. ↑ Newsletter of the RSSA 08/1998 ( Memento of the original from September 24, 2006 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.rssa.uct.ac.za
  5. ↑ MNASSA Newsletter 02/1985, bibcode : 1985MNSSA..44 .... 2.
  6. ↑ IAMG website
  7. ↑ GASA website: The Council 2007 ( Memento of the original from June 29, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.gasa.org.za
personal data
SURNAME Krige, Danie G.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Krige, Danie Gerhardus (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION South African geostatist
DATE OF BIRTH August 26, 1919
PLACE OF BIRTH Free State
DATE OF DEATH March 3, 2013
Place of death Johannesburg