Klaus Keil

Klaus Keil (born November 15, 1934 in Hamburg ) is a German - American mineralogist .

Life

From 1953, Keil studied mineralogy at the Friedrich Schiller University in Jena , where he dealt with the basics of meteorite science . He fled shortly before the construction of the Berlin Wall from the GDR and finished his dissertation at the Max Planck Institute for Chemistry in Mainz .

He then moved to the United States, where he worked at the University of California at San Diego . His main research focus was the electron beam microanalysis of solids . Between 1963 and 1968 he headed the cosmochemistry department at NASA , after which he accepted the professorship in geology at the University of New Mexico in Albuquerque . Since 1990 he has been Professor of Geology and Geophysics at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa .

In 1988 he was awarded the Leonard Medal and in 1993 the asteroid (5054) wedge was named after him. The mineral keilit also bears his name. Since 1996 he has been a corresponding member of the Saxon Academy of Sciences . On December 4, 2002, he received an honorary doctorate from the Friedrich Schiller University in Jena. In 2006 he was awarded the J. Lawrence Smith Medal by the National Academy of Sciences . In 2014 he received the Abraham Gottlob Werner Medal .

Keil is the father of former tennis professional Mark Keil .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Klaus Keil, Prof. Dr. rer. nat. , Website of the Saxon Academy of Sciences, accessed on March 20, 2013.
2. ↑ Nasa (English)
3. ↑ webmineral.com (English)
4. ↑ uni-jena.de ( Memento of the original from February 4, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
5. ↑ National Academy of Sciences (English)

Web links

• Klaus Keil's website at the Hawai'i Institute of Geophysics & Planetology , accessed July 19, 2015