Jochen Hoefs

Jochen Hoefs (born July 28, 1939 in Cammin ) is a German geochemist and mineralogist .

Jochen Hoefs attended elementary school in Neuhaus im Solling (1946–1950) and graduated from high school in Einbeck in 1959 and studied mineralogy at the University of Göttingen until his doctorate under Carl W. Correns in 1964. The subject of the dissertation was the geochemistry of carbon in igneous and metamorphic forms Rocks. He then worked at the laboratory for stable isotopes in Göttingen, interrupted by post-doctoral stays at Caltech with Samuel Epstein and at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology with Patrick Mason Hurley . In 1973 he completed his habilitation in Göttingen, became associate professor in 1976 and full professor in 1979. In 2004 he retired.

He dealt with the geochemistry of stable isotopes, in particular with the global carbon cycle in the geological past. He wrote a textbook on the geochemistry of stable isotopes, the first edition of which was published in 1973.

In 2015 he became an honorary member of the German Mineralogical Society , which he chaired from 1975 to 1977. He was an honorary professor in China and held the Crosby Lecture at MIT in 2005. In 2006 he received the Abraham Gottlob Werner Medal .

From 1983 to 2008 he was co-editor of Chemical Geology and from 1981 of Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology .

Fonts (selection)

• Stable isotopic geochemistry . Springer 1973, ISBN 3-540-06176-2 ; 6th edition 2009.
• with Jan Veizer : The nature of O18 / O16 and C13 / C12 secular trends in sedimentary carbonate rocks . In: Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta . Volume 40, No. 11, November 1976, pp. 1387-1395.

literature

• Michel Böttcher, Jens Fiebig, Harald Strauss: Tales of mystery and imagination in stable isotope geochemistry: celebrating the 75th birthday of Jochen Hoefs . In: Isotopes in Environmental and Health Studies Volume 52, 2016, pp. 1–11.

Web links

• Work by Jochen Hoefs at ResearchGate