Background
Bucher, Walter Herman was born on March 12, 1888 in Akron, Ohio, United States. Son of August J. and Maria (Gebhardt) Bucher.
Bucher, Walter Herman was born on March 12, 1888 in Akron, Ohio, United States. Son of August J. and Maria (Gebhardt) Bucher.
Doctor of Philosophy University of Heidelberg, Germany, 1911. Doctor of Science (honorary), Princeton, 1947, Columbia, 1957, U. Cincinnati, 1962, U. Durham (England), 1963.
The family then returned to Germany where he was raised. The same year he returned to the United States. and joined the University of Cincinnati as a lecturer. By 1924 he was a professor of geology at the institution.
His early works were on paleontology, and he performed studies of stromatolettia, oolites, and ripple-shaped markings.
Just later he concentrated on the Earth"s crust diastrophism problem and proposed firstly (immediate and independent with Mikhail Tetyaev) the pulsation hypothesys of the Earth developing. In 1935 he became president of the Ohio Academy of Sciences.
In 1940 he joined the Columbia University, specializing in structural geology. lieutenant is thought, that at this time he worked as a consultant on the Manhattan Project, hypothesizing how the detonation of the atomic bomb could affect the earths crust.
In the same year he joined the National Research Council, consultant as chairman of the Division of Geology and Geography.
In 1946 he was elected president of the New York Academy of Sciences, and from 1950 until 1953 he served as president of the American Geophysical Union. He was also president of the Geological Society of America (1955). From 1920 onward Doctor Bucher was noted for his studies in cryptovolcanic structures, significant deformations of the crust of the Earth, and structural geology.
He died in Houston, Texas.
Fellow American Academy Arts and Sciences. Member National Academy Science, National Research Council (division chairman 1940-1943), Geological Society America (president 1954-1955), Geophysical Union (president 1948-1953), Paleontological Society American, American Association Advancement of Science, New York Academy Science (president 1944), Ohio Academy Science (president 1935). Member Geological de France, Deutsche Geological Gesellschaft, Society Geological Belgique.
Married Hannah East. Schmid. Children: John Eric, Mary Dorothy, Margaret Louise, Robert Walter.