Daniel Bernoulli (geologist)

Daniel Bernoulli (born June 11, 1936 in Basel ) is a Swiss geologist. He was a full professor at the ETH Zurich and lecturer at the University of Zurich . He deals with sedimentology and tectonics especially in the Alps.

Life

Bernoulli received his doctorate in Basel in 1963 and then worked as a petroleum geologist at a Dutch oil company in The Hague (Bataafse Internationale Petroleum Mij, a Shell subsidiary) from 1963 to 1967 . From 1967 he was assistant to Hans Peter Laubscher at the Geological-Paleontological Institute of the University of Basel , where he qualified as a professor in 1970 and became a professor in 1973. Since 1986 he has been a professor at the ETH Zurich and the University of Zurich .

Like his famous namesake, the mathematician and physicist Daniel Bernoulli , Daniel Bernoulli comes from the Bernoulli family of scholars and is a descendant of Niklaus Bernoulli and his son Hieronymus (1669–1760).

Bernoulli was one of those who, from the 1960s onwards, investigated the formation of the Alps using the methods of plate tectonics that prevailed in the 1960s. Comparative studies with sediments from the North Atlantic served him to reconstruct the Tethys in the sediment deposits of the Alps and he proved that they were partially formed in the deep sea. He investigated fracture zone formation ( trench formation , rifting) at passive continental margins in the Alpine-Mediterranean region and he also pursued applications in petroleum geology from the comparison of seismic explorations and geological field explorations in the Apennine massif.

In 2003 he received the Leopold von Buch plaque and in 2011 the Gustav Steinmann Medal .

Fonts

with Hans Peter Laubscher : Cross section from the Rhine Graben to the Po Plain. In: Swiss Geological Commission (Ed.): Geology of Switzerland. Wepf, Basel 1980, pp. 183-190.
with Hans Peter Laubscher: History and Deformation of the Alps. In: Kenneth Hsü (Ed.): Mountain Building Processes. Academic Press 1982, pp. 169-180.

Web links

Appreciation on the occasion of the Steinmann Medal

Individual evidence

↑ On the geology of Monte Generoso (Lombard Alps): a contribution to the knowledge of the southern alpine sediments , dissertation, Basel 1964, also in contributions to the geological map of Switzerland, new series, volume 118, 1964
^ René Bernoulli-Sutter: The Bernoulli family. Basel 1972, quoted from: Daniel Bernoulli / Biographien. Heidelberg University Library ( Memento from January 2, 2013 in the Internet Archive ).

personal data
SURNAME	Bernoulli, Daniel
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Swiss geologist
DATE OF BIRTH	June 11, 1936
PLACE OF BIRTH	Basel

[1] On the geology of Monte Generoso (Lombard Alps): a contribution to the knowledge of the southern alpine sediments , dissertation, Basel 1964, also in contributions to the geological map of Switzerland, new series, volume 118, 1964

[2] René Bernoulli-Sutter: The Bernoulli family. Basel 1972, quoted from: Daniel Bernoulli / Biographien. Heidelberg University Library ( Memento from January 2, 2013 in the Internet Archive ).