Albrecht Hofmann

Education

Hofmann studied geology and geochemistry in Freiburg in Germany, and received his PhD degree at Brown University.

Career and research

After working at the Carnegie Institution for Science in Washington, D.C., he was appointed Director at the Max Planck Institute for Chemistry, Mainz, Germany, in 1980, to lead the new Department of Geochemistry. He has been Emeritus in Mainz and Visiting Senior Research Scientist at Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory at Columbia University since 2007.

Hofmann uses trace elements and isotopic compositions of basalts to study the composition and evolution of Earth's mantle.[4] He recognized "canonical" trace element ratios as tools to distinguish recycling processes of ancient oceanic and continental crust through the mantle and showed that the chemical heterogeneity of the mantle is dominated by recycled ocean crust.

Awards and honours

Among the awards he received are the Goldschmidt Medal of the Geochemical Society, the Hess Medal of the American Geophysical Union, and the Urey Medal of the European Association of Geochemistry.[4][1] He has been a foreign associate of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States since 1999.[5] He was elected a Foreign Member of the Royal Society in 2018.[4]

References
  1. "About Albrecht W. Hofmann « European Association of Geochemistry". www.eag.eu.com. Archived from the original on 2019-05-07. Retrieved 2018-06-28.
  2. Albrecht Hofmann publications indexed by Google Scholar
  3. Chemie, Max-Planck-Institut für (28 October 2013). "Profile". www.mpic.de. Archived from the original on 29 June 2018. Retrieved 28 June 2018.
  4. Anon (2018). "Professor Albrecht Hofmann ForMemRS". London: Royal Society. One or more of the preceding sentences incorporates text from the royalsociety.org website where:
    "All text published under the heading 'Biography' on Fellow profile pages is available under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License." --"Terms, conditions and policies | Royal Society". Archived from the original on 2016-11-11. Retrieved 2018-06-28.CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link)
  5. http://www.nasonline.org, National Academy of Sciences -. "Albrecht Hofmann". www.nasonline.org.

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