Willem Paul de Roever

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Willem Paul de Roever (born March 7, 1917 in Batavia , † September 24, 2000 in Amstelveen ) was a Dutch geologist, petrologist and mineralogist.

Life

De Roever studied geology from 1934 to 1940 at the University of Amsterdam , where he mapped in the Betic Cordilleras under Hendrik Albertus Brouwer and received his doctorate in 1940 on the geology of Timor . During the Second World War, he investigated various stages of metamorphosis on rocks that Brouwer had collected in Indonesia (e.g. Celebes). After the Second World War he went to Indonesia to work for the Geological Service (Dienst van Mijnbouw). After Indonesian independence, he returned to the Netherlands in 1950 and became a lecturer at the University of Amsterdam. From 1955 he was professor of petrology, mineralogy and crystallography at the University of Leiden . In 1957 he succeeded Brouwer as professor in Amsterdam. In 1975 he retired.

In particular, he examined the connection between metamorphic processes and tectonic phases, which allowed statements to be made about the temporal processes, for example during orogenesis . He also experimentally investigated the formation conditions, for example of the blue schist facies and peridotite . In 1957, he was one of the first to recognize that peridotite must have come from the earth's mantle. In the case of blueschist, he found that very high pressures (corresponding to a depth of around 30 km) had to be present to form it, which was later explained in plate tectonics as a result of subduction processes.

De Roever was a member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Sciences . In 1966 he was elected a member of the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina . In 1975 he received the Gustav Steinmann Medal .

He is not to be confused with the computer scientist of the same name.

literature

  • E. Tex, HJ Zwart: Levensbericht van Willem Paul de Roever 7 maart 1917 - 24 September 2000 . In: Koninklijke Nederlandse Akademie van Wetenschappen: Levensberichten en herdenkingen 2002 , pp. 89–94 ( PDF file )

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Member entry of Willem Paul de Roever (with picture) at the German Academy of Natural Scientists Leopoldina , accessed on June 23, 2016.
personal data
SURNAME Roever, Willem Paul de
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Dutch geologist, petrologist and mineralogist
DATE OF BIRTH March 7, 1917
PLACE OF BIRTH Batavia
DATE OF DEATH September 24, 2000
Place of death Amstelveen