Background
Schidlowski, Manfred was born on November 13, 1933 in Stettin, Germany.
Geochemist and earth sciences educator
Schidlowski, Manfred was born on November 13, 1933 in Stettin, Germany.
Diploma Geology, Freie University, Berlin, 1960. Doctor rerum naturalium, Freie University, Berlin, 1961. Habilitation, Ruprecht Karls University, Heidelberg, Germany, 1968.
Postdoctoral fellow department geology University Pretoria, South Africa, 1961. Mining geologist Anglo-Transvaal Consolidated Investment Company Ltd., Johannesburg, 1961—1963. Research associate mineralogy department University Heidelberg, 1963—1965, senior research associate mineralogy department, 1967—1968, privatdozent on staff mineralogy department, 1968—1969, adjunct professor department earth science, since 1976.
Research associate geology department University Göttingen, Germany, 1965—1967. Senior research scientist department air chemistry/biogeochemistry Paleoenviron. Research Group Max-Plack Institute für Chemie, Mainz, Germany, 1969—1998, retired Germany, 1999.
Consultant and lecturer in field. Honorary research fellow department geological science Harvard University, 1972-1973. Visiting research geochemist Precambrian Paleobiology Research Group, University of California at Los Angeles, 1979-1980, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel, 1984.
Visiting professor faculty science University Libre, 1981. Visiting lecturer Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics Academy of Sciences, Petrosavodsk, 1983, Kola Science Center, 1991. Visiting professor Institute Geology, Lanzhou branch Academia Sinica, 1988, Tsinghua University, Beijing, 1995.
Project leader International Geological Correlation Program, United Nations Educational, 1978-1988. Member advisory board Laboratory Bioorganic Phosphorus Chemistry, Tsinghua University, Beijing, since 1994, Exobiology Science Team, European Space Agency, 1996-1998. Member advisory board International Biographical Center, Cambridge, England, since 1997, American Biographic Institute, North Carolina, since 2005.
Fellow Geological Society South Africa, International Society for Study Origin of Life (councillor 1993-1996), Geological Society India (honorary). Member Geochem. Society, European Union Geophysical Society (councillor 1983-1989), German Geological Society, Geological Vereinigung, Paleontological Society (councillor 1984-1987), German Mineral Society, American Chemical Society, American Geophysical Union, New York Academy of Sciences, Academy Creative Endeavors Moscow.
Married Ingrid Piegler, 1964. 3 children.