Gerhard Wörner (geologist)

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Gerhard Wörner (born September 21, 1952 in Kassel ) is a German mineralogist, geologist, petrograph, volcanologist and geochemist.

Wörner went to school in Bad Sooden Allendorf and studied mineralogy at the Ruhr University Bochum , where he received his diploma from Werner Schreyer in 1977 ( petrographic and statistical investigations on foreign rock ejections in the recent deposits of the Wehrer Kessel / E-Eifel ) and in 1982 Hans-Ulrich Schmincke received his doctorate with distinction (dissertation: Geochemical-mineralogical development of the Laacher See magma chamber ). From 1976 to 1980 he was a scholarship holder of the German National Academic Foundation. Shortly before the eruption on May 18, 1980, he was a student volcanologist at Mount St. Helens , but had previously been flown out of the immediate vicinity. After receiving his doctorate, he worked as a research assistant in Bochum and began research in the Andes in 1986 . In 1988 he completed his habilitation in geology and mineralogy ( magma evolution and eruption in different geotectonic milieu ). From 1988 he was a deputy professor, lecturer (from 1990) and Heisenberg scholarship holder at the University of Mainz and from 1993 he was professor for geochemistry at the Georg-August University in Göttingen .

He investigated volcanic rocks in the Eifel, in the central Andes, Costa Rica, in the Antarctic (cause of the recent volcanism there) and on Kamchatka, researched foreign rocks in volcanic rocks (mantle xenolites ), the formation of flood basalts, the geodynamics of the central Andes and on the petrography of granites in Central Europe.

A focus of his research are the central Andes and the volcanism there. From microcrystals in the magma, he reconstructed the genesis of the magma until shortly before the eruption. There he also deals with the geodynamics of the Andes on an interdisciplinary basis (volcanism, uplift, erosion, climate and landscape development).

In 1988 he received the Victor Moritz Goldschmidt Prize of the German Mineralogical Society and in 1989 the Albert Maucher Prize of the German Research Foundation . In 1997 he received the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize . In 2003 he became a member of the Göttingen Academy of Sciences and in 2014 he received the Hans Stille Medal . In 2013, he became the first foreigner to receive the Geological Society of America's Distinguished Geological Career Award .

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  1. ↑ Mount St. Helens ( Memento of the original from February 25, 2016 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.scientific.at
  2. ↑ Prof. Dr. Gerhard Woerner. with picture. Member entry at the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen , accessed on February 25, 2016 .
  3. ↑ Hans Stille Medal 2014
  4. ↑ Distinguished Geological Career Award to Wörner 2013, University of Göttingen
personal data
SURNAME Woerner, Gerhard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German geochemist
DATE OF BIRTH September 21, 1952
PLACE OF BIRTH kassel