Jean-Jacques Dozy

Jean -Jacques Dozy ( born June 18, 1908 in Rotterdam, † 1 November 2004, The Hague) was a Dutch geologist.

Life

Dozy was born the son of a police officer in Rotterdam. He studied in the early 1930s in Leiden and was a founder of the Leidse Geological Vereniging ( Geological Association of Leiden), a society for geology students. During his studies, he climbed a mountain in Bergamo and thus defeated its first summit and then developed into an active climber.

After graduating, he went as a geologist by the Dutch East Indies and worked for the Royal Dutch Shell and for its subsidiary, the Batavian Petroleum Maatschappij (BPM ), until his retirement in 1966. This led him to various countries, such as after Guatemala, Venezuela, Iran, including to Indonesia and in his Dutch homeland.

From 1980, he held a tenured professor of geology at the Technical University of Delft.

Carstensz Expedition

From October 1936 Dozy participated in the Carstensz Expedition in part, together with the mountaineers Anton Colijn and Pilot Officer Ing Frits Wissel, for climbing and exploration of Puncak Jaya, also known as Carstensz Pyramid known. Towards the end of 1936, he discovered the rock formation and mountain Ertsberg ( in German: " Erzberg " ) in 3600 meters altitude in New Guinea and the Grasberg copper mine with corresponding copper ore and small traces of gold. He explored with his little expedition the area in this field.

In 1939 he published some writings about the unheeded because of the Second World War. 20 years later, his articles have been re-discovered, which led there to the rediscovery of Ertsbergs and the development of Ertsberg and Grasberg mine complex and the copper mining industry. According to Jean -Jacques Dozy found on the Ertsberg mineral Dozyiet was named.