Peter Fritz (geologist)

Peter Fritz (born March 18, 1937 in Stuttgart ) is a German geologist and geochemist.

Fritz completed an apprenticeship as a gardener and studied geology at the TH Stuttgart with a diploma in 1962. He then went on a research stay in Stuttgart, where he began to deal with the use of stable isotopes in geology. In 1965 he received his doctorate and spent two years as a post-doctoral student at the Sorbonne . He was then at the University of Alberta in Edmonton and from 1971 professor at the University of Waterloo , where he headed the Geoscientific Institute from 1980. In 1987 he became director of the Institute for Hydrology of the Society for Environment and Health (GSF) in Munich and from 1992 managing director of the UFZ Environmental Research Center Leipzig-Halle (the current Helmholtz Center for Environmental Research UFZ). In 2004 he retired. As a retiree, he evaluated forest research for the Federal Ministry of Research.

He has published on isotope geology and hydrology, paleoclimatology, and geochemistry.

In 2003 he received an honorary doctorate from the University of Leipzig . He is a member of the Leopoldina (1998). In 2010 he received an honorary doctorate from the Ben Gurion University of the Negev , in whose Zuckerberg Institute for Water Research (ZIWR) he headed the scientific advisory board. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada and a member of the Polish Academy of Learning (PAU) in Krakow .

Web links

• Honorary doctorate from the University of Leipzig

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Member entry by Prof. Dr. Peter Fritz (with picture) at the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina , accessed on February 25, 2016.
2. ^ Members of the PAU - Division IV: Natural Sciences. Polska Akademia Umiejętności, accessed June 14, 2017 (Polish).