Heinrich Holland

Heinrich Dieter Holland, called Dick, ( born May 27, 1927 in Mannheim, † 21 May, 2012 Wynnewood, Pennsylvania) was an American geochemist German origin.

Life

Holland was born in Mannheim and escaped as a Jew by the Nazis Kindertransport to the UK. He met his family back in the Dominican Republic and moved with her ​​in 1940 to the United States to Kew Gardens (New York). He studied chemistry at Princeton University with a bachelor's degree in 1946, was two years in the U.S. Army in secret projects related to the group of rocket specialists to Wernher von Braun and studied from 1947 continued at Columbia University with a master's degree in Geology in 1948 and his doctorate in geology in 1952., where he worked with the geochemist Laurence Kulp. In 1950 he went to Princeton University, where he rose from Instructor to Professor, and from 1972 he was a professor at Harvard University. From 1978, he served there as director of the Center for Earth and Planetary Physics. In 2006, he went there to retire (as Harry C. Dudley Professor of Economic Geology ). He inquired further as a visiting scientist at the University of Pennsylvania until his death.

Among other things, he was a visiting professor and visiting scholar at the University of Oxford ( 1956/57, as NSF Fellow ), Durham University ( 1963/64, Fulbright Lecturer ), University of Heidelberg, Imperial College London, the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and the University of Hawaii ( 1968/69, 1981).

Holland initially examined the thermodynamics of hydrothermal ore deposits and the stability of carbonates. Later his interest shifted to the chemical evolution of the atmosphere and the oceans. In an essay in 1962, he established the idea of a transition from a highly reducing to an oxidizing atmosphere in the course of the Earth.

In 1998 he received the Leopold von Buch- badge. He was a member of the National Academy of Sciences and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He was a Fellow of the Geochemical Society, whose director he whose vice president, he which he was president until 1971 1964 to 1967 1969/70 and 1978 1996. In 1994 he received the VM Goldschmidt Award and 1973 and 1979 the FW Clarke Award. 1980/81 he was an Alexander von Humboldt Research Award winner and he received the 1995 Penrose Gold Medal. 1975/76 he was a Guggenheim Fellow. He was a Fellow of the American Geophysical Union and the Geological Society of America.

Writings

  • The Chemistry of the Atmosphere and Oceans, Wiley 1978
  • The Chemical Evolution of the Ocean and Atmosphere, Princeton University Press, 1984
  • With Ulrich Petersen Living Dangerously, Princeton University Press.1995
  • The geologic history of sea water, in Holland, Karl Turekian et al ( Editor) Treatise on Geochemistry, Volume 6, Elsevier 2003, pp. 583
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