Weyprecht medal
The Weyprecht Medal is awarded by the German Society for Polar Research at irregular intervals for outstanding scientific achievements in the polar regions .
The award is named after Carl Weyprecht, who, together with Julius Payer, led the Austro-Hungarian North Pole Expedition, which among other things led to the discovery of the Franz Josef Land .
Award winners
- 1967: Paul-Émile Victor
- 1969: Bernhard Brockamp
- 1971: Fritz Loewe
- 1978: Julius Büdel
- 1991: Gotthilf Hempel
- 1998: Dietrich Möller
- 2001: Bernhard Stauffer
- 2003: Karl Hinz
- 2008: Hubert Miller
- 2010: Leonid Alexandrowitsch Timochow
- 2013: Reinhard Dietrich
- 2015: Dieter Fütterer
- 2018: Hartwig Gernandt
Web links / sources
- Weyprecht Medal at the German Society for Polar Research ( Memento from August 17, 2017 in the Internet Archive )
- Hans-Wolfgang Hubberten: Awarded the Karl Weyprecht Medal of the German Society for Polar Research e. V. to Dr. Hartwig Gernandt . In: Polar Research . Volume 88, No. 1, 2018, pp. 58-60, hdl : 10013 / epic.0d00186e-c9b2-48d6-b8df-8ebe4622ac5a .
Remarks
- ↑ Mostly cited in English transcription as Leonid A. Timokhov. Professor at the Arctic and Antarctic Research Institute (AARI) in Saint Petersburg, which runs the Otto Schmidt Laboratory together with the Alfred Wegener Institute .