Horst Saalfeld
Horst Saalfeld (born November 19, 1920 in Königsberg , Prussia ) is a German mineralogist and crystallographer .
Saalfeld graduated from high school in Marburg in 1939 and after labor service and military service in World War II and as a prisoner of war from 1945 studied natural sciences and especially mineralogy in Marburg and received his doctorate there in 1950 under Fritz Laves and Heinz Jagodzinski ( on the structural features of the K-Na feldspars depending on their Na content ). From 1952 he was at the Max Planck Institute for Silicate Research in Würzburg , where he completed his habilitation in 1959 ( structures of hydrargillite and the intermediate stages in dewatering ). In 1960 he became professor for structural research at the Saarland University in Saarbrücken and in 1963 professor for mineralogy and petrography at the University of Hamburg . In 1968/69 he was Dean of the Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences. In 1986 he retired.
In 1995 he became an honorary member of the German Mineralogical Society , whose chairman he was from 1972 to 1974 and whose treasurer he was until 1993. He has been a member of the Joachim Jungius Society since 1985 (its Vice President from 1988 to 1994) and of the Academy of Sciences in Hamburg since 2005 .
Around 100 scientific publications come from him.
From 1982 he was editor of the New Yearbook for Mineralogy. In 1984 he organized the congress of the International Union of Crystallography in Hamburg.
Web links
- Biography at the Academy of Sciences in Hamburg
- Biography and list of publications, University of Hamburg
Individual evidence
- ↑ Kürschner's Scholars Calendar 2009
- ↑ Published in the New Yearbook for Mineralogy, Volume 83, 1952, pp. 347–374
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| SURNAME | Saalfeld, Horst |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German mineralogist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 19, 1920 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Königsberg , Prussia , German Empire |