Hubert Miller (geologist)
Hubert Miller (born April 3, 1936 in Munich ; † February 26, 2020 ) was a German geologist .
Life
Miller first studied geodesy and mechanical engineering at the Technical University of Munich and from 1955 geology at the Ludwig Maximilians University of Munich (LMU Munich), where he received his doctorate in 1960. 1963 to 1965 he was a professor at the Universidad de Chile in Santiago. From 1966 he was again at the LMU Munich as an assistant and from 1968 as a private lecturer. From 1971 to 1973 he was a professor at the Universidad Austral de Chile in Valdivia. In 1973/74 he was a deputy professor for regional and historical geology at the University of Münster and then full professor there from 1974. From 1986 he was Professor of General and Applied Geology at the LMU Munich, Director of the Geological Institute and the State Collection . In 2004 he retired.
He dealt with the geology of the Alps (Northern Limestone Alps, northern edge of the Tauern Window), the geology of the Andes (especially in Chile and Argentina), the geology of Patagonia and the geology of the Antarctic (connection with Patagonia before the disintegration of Gondwana, Terranes and plate tectonics ) and the associated Gondwana problems.
In 1983 he founded the Geology of the Polar Regions working group of the German Society for Polar Research with Dieter K. Fütterer and Georg Kleinschmidt . and until 1993 he was their spokesman with Fütterer
In 1994 he received the Herbert Thomas Prize of the Chilean Geological Society. In 2002 he received the Hans Stille Medal . In 2003 he received the Federal Cross of Merit and in 2002 the University Medal of the LMU Munich. In 2000 he received an honorary doctorate from the University of St. Kliment Ohridski Sofia. From 1993 he was a corresponding member of the Asociación Geológica Argentina and since 1998 a member of the Academia Nacional de Ciencias en Córdoba. He was on the Advisory Board of Revista Geológica de Chile and Associate Editor of the Journal of South American Earth Sciences.
From 1994 to 1996 he was chairman of the German Geological Society.
In 2006 the Hubert Miller Seamount in the Amundsen Sea was named after him, and in 2008 he received the Karl Weyprecht Medal of the German Society for Polar Research . He was a permanent member of the Working Group on Geology of the Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR).
Fonts
- Outline of plate tectonics , Enke Verlag 1992
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Hubert Miller obituary notice , SZ from February 29, 2020
- ^ History of the Geology Working Group ( Memento from November 10, 2013 in the Internet Archive )
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Miller, Hubert |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German geologist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 3, 1936 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Munich |
| DATE OF DEATH | February 26, 2020 |