Wolfgang Frisch (geologist)

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Wolfgang Frisch (born December 19, 1943 in Vienna ) is a German-Austrian geologist and emeritus professor of geology at the University of Tübingen . He is known for research in the field of plate tectonics .

Frisch taught at the University of Tübingen from 1981 to 2009. His main research interests were regional geology (Tibet and Himalayas , Central America, Greenland and Central Africa), geodynamics and the orogeny of the Alps and the Alpine mountain ranges from a plate tectonic point of view. In addition to around 200 publications in German-language and international journals, he became known through several books, including a textbook on plate tectonics by Martin Meschede . He was co-author of geological guides for Elba and Corsica .

Frisch began his geology studies at the University of Vienna in 1961 and did his doctorate with Christof Exner on the structure of the Tuxer Hauptkamm (Austrian Central Alps). As a university assistant at the Montan-Universität Leoben , he researched rare earth and tungsten deposits in Greenland and Rwanda and completed his habilitation in 1973. After returning to the University of Vienna, he was one of the first to apply the new theory of plate tectonics to the development of the Alps . After visiting professorships at the Technical University of Munich and Vienna, he accepted the chair for general geology and endogenous dynamics in Tübingen in 1981 .

In addition to the Eastern Alps , he also turned to other Alpine mountains such as the Carpathian and Balkan Mountains , the land bridge of Central America , the Himalayas and the Pamirs - with a focus on geodynamics and mountain tectonics . Most recently, his working group concentrated on methods of crevice and helium dating.

Since 1984 he has been a corresponding member of the Austrian Academy of Sciences . In December 2008 he was honored with the Hans Stille Medal "for his very special services in alpine geoscientific research, teaching and the understandable communication of geoscientific relationships in the field of geodynamics and plate tectonics". At the festival colloquium in Tübingen, Martin Meschede (professor at the University of Greifswald) particularly emphasized two gifts: Frisch's uncompromising precision in field work and analysis as well as his clear art of formulating. In 2014, Frisch was awarded the Eduard Sueß Medal by the Austrian Geological Society , which is also associated with honorary membership of the society. He spends his retirement in his hometown Vienna .

Fonts

  • with Martin Meschede: Plate Tectonics: Continent Shifting and Mountain Building, Darmstadt: Primus Verlag 2005, 2nd edition 2007, also Scientific Book Society 2007
    • English edition with Martin Meschede, Ronald C. Blakey: Plate Tectonics: Continental Drift and Mountain Building, Springer Verlag 2011
  • with Joachim Kuhlemann, Martin Meschede: Corsica: Geology, Nature and Landscape, Excursions, Borntraeger, Geological Guides Collection 99, 2009
  • with Joachim Kuhlemann, Martin Meschede: Elba: Geology, Structure, Excursions and Nature, Borntraeger, Geological Guide Collection 98, 2008

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Detail page for Wolfgang Frisch ( Memento from August 17, 2011 in the Internet Archive ), Austrian Academy of Sciences
  2. ↑ curriculum vitae. ( Memento from June 10, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Version of the homepage of Wolfgang Frisch, University of Tübingen, 2000
  3. ↑ Martin Meschede: Laudation from Prof. Martin Meschede, Greifswald: Hans Stille Medal 2008 to Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Frisch . ( Online article, PDF file, 11 kB ).
personal data
SURNAME Fresh, Wolfgang
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German-Austrian geologist
DATE OF BIRTH December 19, 1943
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna