Volkmar Trommsdorff

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Ernst Volkmar Trommsdorff (born September 17, 1936 in Darmstadt , † June 17, 2005 in Meilen ) was a German mineralogist and petrologist.

Trommsdorff received his doctorate from the University of Innsbruck in 1961 ( To the knowledge of the Ehrwaldites ). From 1972 to 2001 he was a full professor of petrography at the ETH Zurich and the University of Zurich .

He dealt mainly with metamorphic processes and the interaction of solid and liquid phases in the upper mantle and the earth's crust with applications on geodynamics, combining theoretical investigations with high-pressure experiments.

In 1997 he was elected a member of the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina . In 2002 he became an honorary member of the German Mineralogical Society . In 2002 he received the Abraham Gottlob Werner Medal (as one of the “internationally most successful petrologists from continental Europe” who “significantly shaped today's revolutionary geoscientific image of Alpine orange”), he received the Friedrich Becke Medal and was awarded in 2005 Honorary doctorate in Siena.

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  • with Volker Dietrich: Grundzüge der Erdwissenschaften , vdf Hochschulverlag, 6th edition, Zurich 1999, ISBN 3-7281-2662-4 .

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  1. ↑ Member entry of Ernst Volkmar Trommsdorff at the German Academy of Natural Scientists Leopoldina , accessed on June 18, 2016.
  2. ↑ Laudation Werner Medaille ( Memento of the original from April 14, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.dmg-home.de
personal data
SURNAME Trommsdorff, Volkmar
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German mineralogist
DATE OF BIRTH September 17, 1936
PLACE OF BIRTH Darmstadt
DATE OF DEATH June 17, 2005
Place of death miles