Emilie Jäger
Emilie Jäger (born January 4, 1926 in Atzelsdorf, † July 27, 2011 in Meikirch ) was an Austrian-Swiss geologist who dealt with isotope geology. She was a professor at the University of Bern .
Jäger first studied chemistry at the University of Vienna , where she received her doctorate in 1952, and then went to the University of Bern, where she studied mineralogy and radioactive age determination under Heinrich Huttenlocher and the physicist Fritz Houtermans .
At the Carnegie Institution in Washington, DC (with George Tilton (1923-2010), Henry Faul ) she learned the method of rubidium-strontium dating and then built an isotope geology laboratory in Bern from 1959 onwards. She used a mass spectrometer from the University of Bern for dating. She then applied this to determining the age of rocks in the Alps. In 1962 she received her habilitation, in 1965 as associate professor and in 1972 as full professor.
She was also involved in the development of international standards for dating radioactive isotopes, applied the procedures to the dating of deposits and the migration of petroleum in the rock. Later she also dealt with environmental aspects and with dating with the help of optical luminescence and traces of decay due to nuclear fission.
In 1980 she received the Leopold von Buch badge . She was an honorary member of the Austrian Mineralogical Society . In 1988 she was elected a member of the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina .
literature
- Hunter, Emilie. In: The lecturers of the Bern University of Applied Sciences 1528–1984. University of Bern, Bern 1984 ( online ).
- Leopoldina: Communications from the German Academy of Natural Scientists Leopoldina. 1991, p. 47.
Web links
- Obituary by Matthias Giger, Christian Schlüchter, Urs Schaltegger, Swiss Society of Mineralogy and Petrology (PDF; 794 kB)
Individual evidence
- ^ Jäger, Rb-Sr Age on micas and total rocks from the Alps , Journal of Geophysical Research, Volume 67, 1962, pp. 5293-5306.
- ↑ Member entry by Emilie Jäger at the German Academy of Natural Scientists Leopoldina , accessed on July 28, 2016.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Hunter, Emilie |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Austrian-Swiss geologist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 4, 1926 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Atzelsdorf |
| DATE OF DEATH | July 27, 2011 |
| Place of death | Meikirch |