Werner Schreyer
Werner Schreyer ( born November 14, 1930 in Nuremberg, † February 12, 2006 in Bochum, Germany ) was a German mineralogist and geoscientists.
Life
Schreyer studied after graduating from high school from 1950 to 1955 at the Friedrich -Alexander- University of Erlangen and at the Ludwig- Maximilians- University of Munich. In 1957, he was " The Moldanubicum to Vilshofen in Lower Bavaria " doctorate in Munich with the work. He was from 1958 to 1962 as a postdoc at " Carnegie Institution of Washington Geophysical Laboratory on " in Washington, DC. 1962 he became a research assistant at the Mineralogical- petrographic Institute, Christian- Albrechts -University of Kiel. There he completed his habilitation in 1963 with the work " On the stability of Ferrocordierits ".
Schreyer was 1966-1996 Professor of Petrology at the Faculty of Geosciences, Ruhr- University Bochum. At the RUB he built from the Institute of Mineralogy, particularly with the Department " high and very high pressure laboratory ". With the researches that were made possible by this laboratory, he took an international top position among geoscientists.
2002 Schreyer received the U.S. Roebling Medal and was the first German scientists, who received this prestigious award since 1976. In 2003, he of the Geological Association of the Gustav- Steinmann Medal was awarded. Werner Schreyer was a member of several scientific academies, such as the Rhine-Westphalian Academy of Sciences, the German Academy of Natural Scientists Leopoldina in Halle, the Academia Europaea, the Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei (Rome) and the Académie Royale de Belgique ( Brussels).
Werner Schreyer has published over 250 works. Some books are now standard books of university teaching.
Werner Schreyer died on February 12, 2006 in Bochum, Germany.