Konrad B. Krauskopf

Konrad Bates Krauskopf , called Konnie, (born November 30, 1910 in Madison , Wisconsin , † May 4, 2003 in Stanford , California ) was an American geochemist and geologist . He was a professor at Stanford University .

He was the son of a chemistry professor and studied chemistry at the University of Wisconsin – Madison with a bachelor's degree in 1931 (where he also attended a geology lecture with William Twenhofel ) and in 1934 at the University of California, Berkeley , with a PhD thesis on photochemistry . He then studied geology at Stanford University with a doctorate in 1938. During World War II, he was in the US Army in Japan, among other places, where he was from 1947 head of the geographic department G2 of the US Army in Tokyo. Since 1939 he was on the faculty of Stanford University, where he retired in 1976.

He dealt with a wide range of problems, including trace elements in sea water, petrology of granite plutons in the Sierra Nevada and on the Norwegian coast, engineering geology, chemical processes in volcanic eruptions (which he studied at Paricutín in Mexico ), education of ore deposits. He also dealt with radioactive repositories. He also created quadrangle maps for the United States Geological Survey (Mount Barcroft, Glass Mountain, Mariposa, El Portal).

Krauskopf also published some introductory physics textbooks with Arthur Beiser .

In 1967 he was President of the Geological Society of America and in 1970 of the Geochemical Society . In 1960 he received the Arthur L. Day Medal , in 1982 the VM Goldschmidt Award from the Geochemical Society and in 1984 the Ian Campbell Medal from the American Geological Society. In 1964 he was President of the American Geological Institute.

He was a member of the National Academy of Sciences (1959) and the American Philosophical Society (1967). He was a Guggenheim and Fulbright Fellow.

He was married and had four children.

Fonts

• Geology of high level nuclear waste disposal , Annual Review Earth Planetary Science, Volume 16, 1988, pp. 173-200
• Disposal of high level nuclear waste. Is it possible? , Science, Vol. 249, 1990, p. 1231
• with Arthur Beiser Introduction to physics and chemistry , McGraw Hill 1964
• The Third Planet: An invitation to geology , Freeman, San Francisco 1974
• Introduction to Geochemistry , McGraw Hill 1967, 3rd edition with Dennis K. Bird 1995
• Fundamentals of Physical Science , 6th Edition, McGraw Hill 1971
• with Arthur Beiser The Physical Universe , 9th edition, McGraw Hill 2000
• Radioactive Waste Disposal and Geology , London, Chapman and Hall 1988
• with Arthur Beiser Introduction to Earth Science , McGraw Hill 1975
• Thermodynamics used in geochemitry , in KH Wedepohl Handbook of Geochemistry , Volume 1, Springer Verlag 1969
• A tale of ten plutons , Geological Society of America Bulletin, Volume 79, 1968, pp. 1-17 (Presidential Address GSA)

Web links

• Obituary at the National Academy of Science, WG Ernst
• Obituary in Stanford
• Literature by and about Konrad B. Krauskopf in the bibliographic database WorldCat