Walter Hermann Bucher
Walter Hermann Bucher ( born March 12, 1889 in Akron, Ohio, † February 17, 1965 in Houston, Texas ) was a German - American geologist and paleontologist.
Life
Bucher was born as the son of a Swiss- German parents. The family returned to his native Germany, where he grew up and received his doctorate in 1911 in the fields of geology and paleontology at the University of Heidelberg. In the same year he returned to the United States and took a position at the University of Cincinnati as a lecturer. From 1924 he was Professor of Geology.
His early work dealt with paleontological subjects. So he dealt with as stromatolites, oolitics and ripple marks. He also examined a number of craters in the U.S., which he identified as an impact crater. Bucher came to the conclusion that this had come into existence by large explosions, but wrote their origin to volcanic eruptions.
In 1935, he was appointed President of the zm Ohio Academy of Sciences, and in 1940 he took the place of a structural geologist at Columbia University. In the same year he became chairman of the Department of Geology and Geography at the National Research Council. 1946 Bucher was elected president of the New York Academy of Sciences, and from 1950 to 1953 he was president of the American Geophysical Union.
From 1920 Bucher made a name for his research in the fields of Kryptovulkanismus, studying significant deformations of the earth's crust and in the structural geology.
Works (selection)
Awards and Honors
- Bownocker Medal of the Department of Geological Sciences, Ohio State University, 1938.
- William Bowie Medal of the American Geophysical Union, 1955.
- Leopold von Buch Medal of the Geological Society, 1955.
- Penrose Medal of the Geological Society of America, 1960.
- The ridge Dorsum Bucher on the Moon is named after him