Wolfgang Frank (geologist)
Wolfgang Frank (born June 8, 1939 in Vienna ) is an Austrian geologist.
Frank studied geology and petrography at the University of Vienna from 1958 to 1965 . His dissertation was devoted to the geology of the Hohe Tauern . He then worked as an assistant at the University of Vienna and completed his habilitation in 1972 on alpine metamorphosis in the Himalayas. During a guest stay at the University of Bern in the early 1970s , he was trained in geochronology (age determination with isotopes). Until his retirement he was professor for crystalline geology and geochronology at the University of Vienna, where he set up a geochronological laboratory.
He dealt in particular with the development history of the Eastern Alps and, in cooperation with the University of Innsbruck and the ETH Zurich, with the geology of the Himalayas and Tibet.
In 2012 he received the Eduard Sueß commemorative coin . Since 1984 he has been a corresponding member in Germany of the mathematical and natural science class of the Austrian Academy of Sciences . In 2004 he became an honorary member of the Austrian Geological Society .
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| SURNAME | Frank, Wolfgang |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Austrian geologist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 8, 1939 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Vienna |