Background
Pabst, Adolf was born on November 30, 1899 in Chicago, Illinois, United States. Son of Edmund F. and Emma (Hoffman) Pabst.
mineralogist university professor
Pabst, Adolf was born on November 30, 1899 in Chicago, Illinois, United States. Son of Edmund F. and Emma (Hoffman) Pabst.
Pabst received in 1925 his bachelor"s degree at the University of Illinois and in 1928 his Doctor of Philosophy in geology and mineralogy at the University of California, Berkeley under George Doctorate. Louderbeck with a thesis on mineral inclusions in the granitic plutons of the Sierra Nevada.
After returning to Berkeley, he became in 1929 an instructor, in 1931 an assistant professor, in 1936 an associate professor, and in 1944 a full professor In the academic year 1938/39 he was a Guggenheim Fellow at the Natural History Museum in London and in the academic year 1955/56 a Fulbright Fellow at the University of Vienna. In 1967 he retired as professor emeritus, but continued to do research at U. C. Berkeley and published steadily until 1984.
He was in the academic year 1967/68 a visiting professor of mineralogy und crystallography at the University of Nevada, Reno and in the academic year 1968/69 a visiting professor of mineralogy at the University of Oregon.
He was also in the academic year 1970/71 a Fulbright Visiting Professor at the University of Berlin and the University of Kiel. Pabst was for many years on the editorial board of American Mineralogist.
He first described various minerals, among which are huttonite and macdonaldite.
(San Francisco: Division of Mines, February, 1938. Hardbou...)
Fellow Geological Society of America, Mineralogical Society of America (councilor 1942-1945, president 1951, Roebling medal 1965), California Academy of Sciences. Member German Mineralogical Society (honorary), Phi Beta Kappa, Sigma Xi (vice president California 1944-1945), Theta Tau (honorary).
Married Gudrun-Lisabeth Berg, June 5, 1929 (deceased June 1973).
