Friedrich Seifert (mineralogist)

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Friedrich Alfred Seifert (born May 8, 1941 in Dresden ) is a German mineralogist and geophysicist .

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Seifert studied geology and mineralogy in Kiel and Zurich . In 1966 he received his doctorate in mineralogy from the University of Kiel. He then worked as a research assistant at the Ruhr University in Bochum . There he received his habilitation in 1970 and was appointed adjunct professor in 1972. After a research stay at the Geophysical Laboratory in Washington, DC , he became a full professor of mineralogy and petrology in Kiel in 1974.

On April 1, 1986, Seifert accepted a professorship for Experimental Geosciences at the University of Bayreuth . At the same time he became the first director of the newly founded Bavarian Research Institute for Experimental Geochemistry and Geophysics in Bayreuth. He retired on September 30, 2006. He was a full member from 1988 and a corresponding member since 2006 of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences , since 1990 member of Academia Europaea , since 1991 member of Leopoldina and since 1992 member of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen .

Due to his work in the field of high pressure research, Seifert has received numerous national and international awards, including an honorary doctorate from Uppsala University . In 1987 he was awarded a Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize by the German Research Foundation and in 2004 the Abraham Gottlob Werner Medal in silver. In 2012 he received the Walter Kertz Medal from the German Geophysical Society. The quartz modification Seifertite is named after Seifert . Seifertite was first detected in meteorites from Mars. However, it would also have to be present in rocks with free silicon dioxide in the lower earth's mantle, at depths below 1700 kilometers . The translucent, lamellar high-pressure mineral is the densest natural modification of quartz to date. It is characterized by an unusual hardness, but is only stable at pressures above 780 kbar.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ member entry by Friedrich Seifert (with photo) at the Bavarian Academy of Sciences , accessed on February 13 2016th
  2. ↑ Member entry of Friedrich A. Seifert (with picture and CV) at the German Academy of Natural Scientists Leopoldina , accessed on February 13, 2016.
personal data
SURNAME Seifert, Friedrich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Seifert, Friedrich Alfred
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German mineralogist and geophysicist
DATE OF BIRTH May 8, 1941
PLACE OF BIRTH Dresden