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Born:
October 21, 1937 in Detmold
Prof. Hans-Ulrich Schmincke
Studied:
University of Göttingen, University of Freiburg; Technical University of Aachen; John
Hopkins University (Baltimore, Md., USA) (M.A., 1962; Ph.D., 1964); University of
California at Santa Barbara. Professorial thesis at the University of Heidelberg 1969; lecturer
then Associate Professor at the Ruhr University in Bochum 1969-90; Full Professor and Chair
of the Volcanology and Petrology Department at the GEOMAR Research Center at the
Christian Albrechts University at Kiel since 1990.
Guest lectureships:
Include University of Salzburg; University of Toronto, Canada; Southern Methodist
University Dallas (Texas) University of Bern; Universita di Catania (Italy).
Spokesman of:
Post-Doctoral Council on the dynamics of global cycles in the Earth system (1992-2001).
General Secretary:
International Association of Volcanology and Chemistry of the Earth's Interior (IAVCEI)
(1983-91).
Editor of :
Bulletin of Volcanology (1986-95). Coeditor of a number of international scientific journals.
Member of several scientific associations.
Prizes and awards:
1985 N.L. Bowen Award, American Geophysical Union; 1990 Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
Prize, German Research Community; 1993 Thorarinsson Medal from the International
Association of Volcanology; 2001 Hans Stille Medal from the German Geological Society.
publications:
about 250 articles (1960-2001). books: Pyroclastic Rocks, 1984, (mit R.V. Fisher) Springer
Verlag Heidelberg; Vulkanismus, 1986, 2te Aufl 2000, Wiss. Buchges. Darmstadt; Der
Laacher See und seine Vulkane, 1988, Bode Verlag Haltern; Geology of the Canary Islands
(1987-2001, 8 ed); Volcanology of the Eifel volcanic fields (1990; 1994)