Paul F. Hoffman

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Paul Felix Hoffman (born March 21, 1941 in Toronto , Ontario ) is a Canadian geologist and professor emeritus from Harvard University .

biography

Hoffman studied geology at McMaster University (bachelor's degree in 1964) and Johns Hopkins University , where he received his doctorate in 1970. From 1969 to 1992 he was a scientist in the Geological Survey of Canada. He also taught part-time at the University of California, Santa Barbara (1971/72), Caltech (1974/75), the University of Texas at Dallas (1978) and at the Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory at Columbia University (1990). In 1992 he became a professor at the University of Victoria (where he was later adjunct professor) and from 1994 at Harvard University, where he is Sturgis Hooper professor of geology.

Hoffman dealt with the development of the Earth in the Precambrian (both plate tectonics, for example the sequence of the supercontinent cycles, as well as the climate and environmental conditions), for which he undertook extensive field studies in northwestern Canada and in southwest Africa (Namibia). He is particularly known for his contribution to the hypothesis of the snowball earth, which he wrote together with Daniel Schrag and others .

He has received numerous awards for his scientific work, including the Wollaston Medal of the Geological Society of London in 2009 , the Henno Martin Medal of the Geological Society of Namibia, the Miller Medal of the Royal Society of Canada, the Logan Medal of the Geological Association of Canada and 2010 the Walter H. Bucher Medal . In 2001 he received the Alfred Wegener Medal . He is a member of the Royal Society of Canada (since 1982) and an external member of the National Academy of Sciences (since 1992) and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (since 1993).

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Hoffman, Schrag Snowball Earth , Scientific American, Volume 282, January 2000
  2. ↑ Society honors Snowball Earth pioneer  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Dead Link / geolsoclive.soukdev.com   , Geoscientist Online, Jan. 27, 2009
personal data
SURNAME Hoffman, Paul F.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Hoffman, Paul Felix
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Canadian geologist
DATE OF BIRTH March 21, 1941
PLACE OF BIRTH Toronto