Werner Schreyer (geologist)

Werner Schreyer (born November 14, 1930 in Nuremberg ; † February 12, 2006 in Bochum ) was a German geoscientist and mineralogist .

Life

After graduating from high school, Schreyer studied from 1950 to 1955 at the Friedrich Alexander University in Erlangen and at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich . In 1957 he was in Munich with the work "The Moldanubicum to Vilshofen in Lower Bavaria" doctorate . From 1958 to 1962 he was a postdoc at the Carnegie Institution of Washington at the Geophysical Laboratory in Washington, DC. In 1962 he became a scientific assistant at the Mineralogical-Petrographic Institute of the Christian-Albrechts-University in Kiel . There he completed his habilitation in 1963 with the thesis "On the stability of ferrocordierite" .

From 1966 to 1996, Schreyer was full professor of petrology at the Faculty of Geosciences at the Ruhr University in Bochum . At the RUB, he expanded the Institute for Mineralogy, in particular with the “High and Extremely High Pressure Laboratory” department. With the research made possible by this laboratory, he took an international top position among geoscientists.

In 2002 Schreyer received the American Roebling Medal and since 1976 was the first German scientist to receive this prestigious award. In 2003 he was awarded the Gustav Steinmann Medal by the Geological Association . Werner Schreyer was a member of several scientific academies , such as the Rheinisch-Westfälische Akademie der Wissenschaften, the Deutsche Akademie der Naturforscher Leopoldina in Halle, the Academia Europaea , the Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei (Rome) and the Académie Royale de Belgique (Brussels).

Werner Schreyer has published over 250 papers. Some books are now standard books for university teaching.

Werner Schreyer died on February 12, 2006 in Bochum.

Awards

• 1989 Honorary Member of the Mineralogical Society of Great Britain and Ireland
• 1989 Friedrich Becke Medal of the Austrian Mineralogical Society
• 1991 Honorary doctorate from the University of Hanover
• 1995 Honorary doctorate from the University of Liège
• 2002 Roebling Medal from the Mineralogical Society of America (MSA)
• 2003 Gustav Steinmann Medal of the Geological Association

Web links

• "World's highest award for mineralogists to Prof. Werner Schreyer"
• "Presentation of the Roebling Medal of the Mineralogical Society of America for 2002 to Werner Schreyer" (.pdf; 31 kB)
• "RUB mourns Prof. Werner Schreyer"