Vladimír Zoubek

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Vladimír Zoubek (born September 21, 1903 in Heřmanův Městec (then: Hermannstädtel), † May 24, 1995 in Prague ) was a Czech geologist .

Life

Zoubek studied at the Charles University in Prague and received his doctorate in 1927 . He stayed at the Charles University as an assistant to the Geological Institute.

In 1931 Zoubek became a research assistant at the State Geological Institute in Prague and worked there until 1962. In 1936 he published a pioneering study of the geology of the Western Carpathians . In it he identified the tectonic unit Veporikum with rocks of the Upper Palaeozoic and Mesozoic Era . In 1948 he joined the KPČ . In 1953 he became a corresponding member of the Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences . 1954–1956 he was director of the institute.

Zoubek founded the Geological Institute of the Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences in the 1950s, in which he then worked. In 1962 he became a real member of the Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences. 1969–1974 he led the institute. In 1977 he was elected a foreign member of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR .

In 1979 Zoubek became a senior scientist at the new Institute for Geology and Geotechnics . He led the creation of the geological map of Czechoslovakia and was involved in the tectonic map of Europe . He carried out the geological surveys for the construction of the Vltava cascade .

Zoubek was Vice President of the International Union of Geological Sciences .

The mineral Zoubekit was named after Zoubek .

Prices

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f Akademik Vladimír Zoubek - čestný předseda Semináře 1983 . In: Seminář jaderné metody v hornictví, geologii a geochemii. [s. l.]: ÚGG ČSAV . 1983, p. 8-9 .
  2. ↑ a b c d e Ředitelé ČGS: Vladimír Zoubek (accessed on September 18, 2018).
  3. ↑ a b c Zoubek (accessed on September 18, 2018).
  4. ↑ a b c d e Great Soviet Encyclopedia : Zoubek, Vladimír (accessed September 18, 2018).
  5. ↑ 70th anniversary of academician Vladimír Zoubek . In: Krystalinikum: contributions to the geology and petrology of crystalline complexes . tape 10 , 1974.
  6. ↑ JAHN, Ján: Poznámka ku kryštaliniku Západných Karpat . In: Zpravodaj České geologické společnosti [PDF]. Červenec 2012 . S. 21–22 ( geologickaspolecnost.cz [PDF; accessed on September 18, 2018]).
  7. ↑ Zoubekite (accessed September 18, 2018).
personal data
SURNAME Zoubek, Vladimír
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Czech geologist
DATE OF BIRTH September 21, 1903
PLACE OF BIRTH Sibiu
DATE OF DEATH May 24, 1995
Place of death Prague