Dieter Stöffler
Dieter Stöffler (born May 23, 1939 in Schramberg ) is a German geologist and mineralogist .
Life
Stöffler was born the son of a watchmaker. He graduated from high school in Schramberg . From 1958 to 1963 he studied mineralogy, geology and chemistry at the Eberhard Karls University in Tübingen . In 1963 he was promoted to Dr. rer. nat. PhD. In 1970 he completed his habilitation in Tübingen in the field of geosciences .
From 1969 to 1975 he was involved in the investigation of rock samples from the moon from the NASA Apollo program . From 1974 to 1993 he was a professor at the Westphalian Wilhelms University of Münster and from 1986 to 1993 director of the Institute for Planetology at the University of Münster, which he founded. From 1993 to 1999 he was director of the Museum für Naturkunde in Berlin . At the same time he was a professor for mineralogy and petrography at the Humboldt University in Berlin from 1993 to 2005 . His research area is planetology .
Prizes and awards (selection)
- 1988: (4283) Stöffler , naming an asteroid
- 1990: Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize from the German Research Foundation
- 1991: Awarded the letter of honor from the city of Nördlingen
- 1993: Awarded the Barringer Medal of the Meteoritical Society
- 1995: Member of the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences
- 1998: Member of the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina
- 2003: Award of the Rieser Culture Prize
- 2017: Name of a mineral of the feldspar group "Stöfflerite" (CaAl2Si2O8) newly discovered in the Mars meteorite NWA 856.
Web links
- Literature by and about Dieter Stöffler in the catalog of the German National Library
- Dieter Stöffler on the website of the Museum für Naturkunde Berlin
- Dieter Stöffler in the Munzinger archive
- spiegel.de:Im Griff, 1973
Individual evidence
- ↑ Topic of the dissertation: Newer findings in the claystone question based on sediment petrographic and geochemical investigations in the seam Wahlschied of the Ensdorf mine (Saar)
- ↑ Topic: Shock Effects in rock-forming minerals of terrestrial, lunar and meteoritic origin
- ↑ Member entry by Dieter Stöffler (with picture) at the German Academy of Natural Scientists Leopoldina , accessed on July 22, 2016.
- ^ NWA 856. Meteoritical Society, accessed September 27, 2017 .
- ↑ IMA 2017-062
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Stöffler, Dieter |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German geologist and mineralogist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 23, 1939 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Schramberg |