Hans P. Eugster

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Hans Peter Eugster (born November 19, 1925 in Igis , Switzerland ; † December 17, 1987 in Baltimore , USA ) was a Swiss-American mineralogist , petrologist and geochemist .

Eugster studied at the ETH Zurich with his diploma in 1948 and his doctorate with Paul Niggli in 1951, studying metamorphic recrystallization in the eastern part of the Aar massif for his dissertation . He was a postdoctoral fellow at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology , where he did research with James Burleigh Thompson of Harvard University , and then went to the Geophysical Laboratory of the Carnegie Institution in Washington, DC There, under Hatten Yoder , he worked on experimental mineralogy. He investigated the phase equilibrium of the formation of sheet silicates such as various mica (whereby he developed a technique to control the oxygen fugacity and thus the chemical composition) and evaporites of the Green River Formation, later followed by worldwide investigations of other salt deposits. In 1958 he became associate professor of experimental petrology at Johns Hopkins University and in 1960 professor. 1983 to 1987 he was head of the Faculty of Geosciences. He was also from 1970 Adjunct Professor at the University of Wyoming . He died surprisingly of an aortic tear.

He was a member of the National Academy of Sciences (1972) and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences . He received the Roebling Medal in 1983 , the VM Goldschmidt Award in 1976 and the Arthur L. Day Medal in 1971 . In 1985 he was President of the Mineralogical Society of America .

The salt mineral eugsterite from Lake Victoria in Kenya was named after him in 1981.

His brother Conrad Hans Eugster was a chemist and university professor.

Fonts

  • Heterogeneous reactions involving oxidation and reduction at high pressures and temperatures, J. Chem. Phys., Volume 26, 1957, pp. 1760-1761
  • with Charles Milton: Mineral assemblages in the Green River Formation, in PH Abelson, Researches in Geochemistry, Wiley 1959, pp. 18-150
  • Reduction and Oxidation in Metamorphism, in PH Abelson, Researches in Geochemistry, Wiley 1959, pp. 397-426
  • with BM French. Experimental control of oxygen fugacities by graphite-gas equilibriums, J. Geophys. Res., Vol. 70, 1965, pp. 1529-1539.
  • with DR Wones: Stability of biotite: Experiment, theory, and application., American Mineralogist, Volume 50, 1965, pp. 1228-1272.
  • with JL Munoz: Experimental control of fluorine reactions in hydrothermal systems. American Mineralogist, Volume 54, 1969, pp: 943-959.
  • with LA Hardie: The evolution of closed basin brines, Mineralogical Society of America Special Publ., 3, 1970, pp. 273-290
  • The beginnings of experimental petrology, Science, Volume 173, 1971, pp. 481-489
  • with CE Harvie, JH Weare, LA Hardie. Evaporation of sea water: Calculated mineral sequences, Science, Volume 208, 1980, pp. 498-500.
  • Oil shales, evaporites and ore deposits. Geochim. et Cosmochim. Acta, Vol. 49, 1985, pp. 619-635.
  • with RJ Spencer, BF Jones, SL Rettig: Geochemistry of Great Salt Lake, Utah, Parts 1, 2, Geochim. et Cosmochim. Acta, Vol. 49, 1985, pp. 727-737, 739-74

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SURNAME Eugster, Hans P.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Eugster, Hans Peter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss-American mineralogist, geochemist and petrologist
DATE OF BIRTH November 19, 1925
PLACE OF BIRTH Igis , Switzerland
DATE OF DEATH 17th December 1987
Place of death Baltimore , United States