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Carl Wilhelm Correns

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at the newly created department of geology and made use of X-ray diffraction to study minerals. He took a special interest in clay minerals, studying Mecklenburg soils and the ocean-bed core samples from the Meteor Expedition. He became a full professor in 1929. He was made head of the Institute for
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at Berlin. He joined the Prussian Geological Survey from 1922 to 1926 after serving as an assistant to Erich Kaiser at the University of Munich. He then worked on colloidal chemistry under
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Sedimentary Petrology in 1939 and worked at Göttingen until his death. He was noted for his teaching, mentoring nearly 61 doctoral students and his textbook
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at the Kaiser Wilhelm Institut and joined as Privatdozent at the University of Berlin. In 1926 he joined the
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was on petrography and paleontology of Devonian limestone. He was inspired by the book
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that he came across in Christmas of 1920 and attended seminars by
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and Elisabeth Widmer. He went to the universities of Tübingen and
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Roebling Medal of the Geological Society of America, 1976
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Index

Carl Correns
Thesis
Doctoral advisor
sedimentary petrology
Roebling Medal
Tübingen
Carl Erich Correns
Münster
World War I
University of Berlin
J.F. Pompecki
Paul Niggli
Arrien Johnsen
Herbert Freundlich
Meteor Expedition
Fritz Haber
Rostock University
"Presentation of the Roebling Medal of the Mineralogical Society of America for 1976 to Carl W. Correns"
ISSN
0003-004X
"Memorial to Carl Wilhelm Correns May 19, 1893-August 29, 1980"
Memorial to Carl Wilhelm Correns 1893-1980
"Acceptance of the Roebling Medal of the Mineralogical Society of America for 1976"
ISSN
0003-004X
Categories
1893 births
1980 deaths
20th-century German geologists
Scientists from Tübingen

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