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Carl W. Correns
German mineralogist and geochemist (1893-1980) · Germany · On the map · Academics · Died at 87
Carl Wilhelm Correns was a German mineralogist who pioneered the field of sedimentary petrology. He was noted as an influential teacher and for his textbook Einführung in die Mineralogie (1949). Correns received the Roebling Medal of the Geological Society of America in 1976.
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1980Died29 August 19801976Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of GermanyAwardRoebling MedalAward1963Hans-Stille-MedailleAwardHonorary Doctor of the University of TübingenAward1957Gustav-Steinmann MedalAward1893Born19 May 1893
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Lived 1893 to 1980 · aged 87
