Heinrich Wänke#
| Sadly, this member passed away. | |
| Membership Number: | 1469 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | EARTH & COSMIC SCIENCES |
| Elected: | 1993 |
| Main Country of Residence: | GERMANY |
Heinrich Wänke passed away November 21, 2015.
Positions Held
- 1958 - 1996 Director of Department of Cosmochemistry
- 1953 Max Planck Institute for Chemistry at Mainz, Germany
Fields of Scholarship
- Cosmochemistry
- Geochemistry
- Meteorites
- Moon rocks
- Martian meteorites
- Earth mantle rocks
Honours and Awards
- 1991 Friedrich-Becke Medal
- Leonard Medal from The Meteoritical Society
- 1999 Abraham-Gottlob-Werner Medaille, the highest award of the German Mineralogical Society
- 1991 Friedrich-Becke-Medaille of the Austrian Mineralogical Society
- Corresponding member of the Austrian Academy of Science
- Foreign member of the Russian Academy of Science
- Associate of the Royal Society of London
- 1993 - 1995 Chair of the Solar system Working Group
- Member of the Space Advisory Committee of ESA
- 1996 to 1998 President of the European Geophysical Society
- 1999 Runcorn Florensky Medal of the European Geophysical Society
