Friedrich Seifert

Friedrich Alfred Seifert ( born May 8, 1941 in Dresden ) is a German mineralogist and geophysicists.

Life and work

Seifert studied geology and mineralogy in Kiel and Zurich. In 1966 he received his doctorate at the University of Kiel in mineralogy. Subsequently, he was a research assistant at the Ruhr- University Bochum. There he was habilitated in 1970 and appointed in 1972 as an adjunct professor. After a research stay at the Geophysical Laboratory in Washington DC it was founded in 1974 Full Professor of Mineralogy and Petrology in Kiel.

Seifert followed the April 1, 1986 a call to the Chair of Experimental Geosciences at the University of Bayreuth. At the same time he became the first director of the newly founded Bavarian Research Institute of Experimental Geochemistry and Geophysics in Bayreuth. On 30 September 2006 he became Professor Emeritus. He was decent in 1988 and is a corresponding member of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences, since 1990 member of the Academia Europaea since 1991 a member of the Leopoldina and since 1992 member of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen since 2006.

Because of his work in the field of high pressure research Seifert, numerous national and international awards to part, including an honorary doctorate from the University of Uppsala. In 1987 he was awarded in 2004 with a Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize of the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft and by the Abraham Gottlob Werner medal in silver. In 2012 he received the Walter Kertz Medal of the German Geophysical Society.

According to Seifert, the quartz modification Seifertit is named. Seifertit was first detected in meteorites from Mars. However, it would also in the lower mantle, may be present at depths below 1700 kilometers, in rocks with free silica. The translucent lamellar high-pressure mineral is so far the densest natural modification of the quartz. It is characterized by an unusual hardness but kbar is stable only at pressures above 780.

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