Background
Seifert was born in Dresden, Germany in 1941.
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Friedrich Seifert
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Education
He studied mineralogy at the University of Kiel and the University of Zurich and received his Doctor of Philosophy degree from the University of Zurich in 1966 for his work on the rock metamorphosis at high temperatures and pressures.
Career
He is the founding director of Bayerisches Geoinstitut at University of Bayreuth. A silicate mineral seifertite is named after him. In 1972, he became professor at the University of Bochum.
He then stayed at the Carnegie Geophysical Laboratory in Washington, District of Columbia, where he applied Mössbauer spectroscopy to study the kinetics of the formation of rocks and minerals.
After returning to Germany in 1974, he assumed a professor position at the University of Kiel. Seifert changed to the University of Bayreuth in 1986 and became the first director of the newly founded Bayerisches Geoinstitut at the university.
Achievements
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Seifert is a member of several academic societies, including Academia Europaea (1990), German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina (1991), Göttingen Academy of Sciences (1992) and Bavarian Academy of Sciences and Humanities (2006). In 1987, he was awarded the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize worth 2.5 million euro. In 2004, he received the Abraham Gottlob Werner Medal for achievements in the experimental and theoretical petrology and spectroscopy of minerals and silicate melts. In 2008, a high pressure polymorph of quartz (SiO2), seifertite, was named after Seifert. This mineral and its name are officially recognized by the International Mineralogical Association.
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Foreign his post-doctorate work, Seifert moved to University of Bochum and defended a habilitation thesis in 1970.
Membership
German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina. Academia Europaea; Bavarian Academy of Sciences and Humanities. Göttingen Academy of Sciences]
Seifert is a member of several academic societies, including Academia Europaea (1990), German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina (1991), Göttingen Academy of Sciences (1992) and Bavarian Academy of Sciences and Humanities (2006).
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Nationality
Germany
Awards
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Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize; the Abraham Gottlob Werner Medal
The Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize or in short the Leibniz Prize is a research prize awarded by the German Research Foundation every year since 1985 to exceptional scientists and academics working in Germany for their outstanding achievements in the field of research.The Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize or in short the Leibniz Prize is a research prize awarded by the German Research Foundation every year since 1985 to exceptional scientists and academics working in Germany for their outstanding achievements in the field of research.