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Carl W. Correns

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German mineralogist and geochemist (1893-1980)

GermanyAcademicsLived 1893 to 1980 · aged 87
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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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1976Roebling Medal
1976Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany
1963Hans-Stille-Medaille
1963honorary doctor of the University of Tübingen
1957Gustav-Steinmann Medal

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Country
Germany
Category
Academics
Type
Academic
Status
deceased
Dates
Lived 1893 to 1980 · aged 87
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