Wolfgang Schlager

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Wolfgang Schlager (born November 4, 1938 in Salzburg ) is an Austrian geologist.

Schlager studied at the University of Vienna , where he received his doctorate in 1963 on the geology of the eastern Lienz Dolomites. He then worked as an assistant at the Universities of Vienna and Marburg. In 1968 he completed his habilitation at the University of Vienna, but then switched to the oil industry and in 1972 went to Shell in The Hague (research laboratories in Rijswijk ) as a petroleum geologist. In 1974 he became Associate Professor and 1985 Professor at the Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Sciences at the University of Miami . He has been Professor of Geology (marine geology, sedimentology) at the Free University of Amsterdam since 1985 , where he has been Professor Emeritus since 2002.

Schlager dealt primarily with sedimentary rocks, where he researched the recent formation of limestone sediments in Florida and dealt with the interaction of tectonics and sedimentation processes at the shelf edges of the Alpine Tethys .

Schlager is a corresponding member abroad of the mathematical and natural science class of the Austrian Academy of Sciences , a member of the Leopoldina , the Accademia dei Lincei and the Academia Europaea . In 2002 he received the Gustav Steinmann Medal of the Geological Association (of which he was chairman) and in 2008 the Eduard Sueß commemorative coin of the Austrian Geological Society , of which he is an honorary member. In 2015 he was awarded the Jean Baptiste Lamarck Medal of the European Geosciences Union .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Member entry by Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Schlager at the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina , accessed on July 20, 2016.
  2. ^ Membership directory: Wolfgang Schlager. Academia Europaea, accessed on October 23, 2017 .
  3. ↑ To receive the Gustav Steinmann Medal ( Memento from August 16, 2016 in the Internet Archive )
  4. ↑ To receive the Eduard Sueß commemorative coin ( Memento from September 30, 2011 in the Internet Archive )
  5. ↑ Jean Baptiste Lamarck Medal 2015 at egu.eu
personal data
SURNAME Schlager, Wolfgang
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian geologist
DATE OF BIRTH November 4, 1938
PLACE OF BIRTH Salzburg