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Eduard Suess
Eduard Suess was an Austrian geologist and a specialist on the geography of the Alps. He is responsible for hypothesising two major former geographical features, the supercontinent Gondwana and the Tethys Ocean. He also introduced the concepts of eustasy. As a professor of geology at the University of Vienna, he was a founding figure in geology in Austria, influencing numerous geologists across Eu…
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Born 20 August 1831 · Died 26 April 1914 · Q156941
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1914· 1 entry
Died 1914-04-26.
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1903· 1 entry
Won Copley Medal (1903).
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1901· 1 entry
Won P. P. Semyonov-Tyan-Shansky Gold Medal (1901).
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1896· 2 entries
Won Wollaston Medal (1896).
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And he won the Copley Medal of the Royal Society in 1903
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1894· 1 entry
Awarded Foreign Member of the Royal Society (1894).
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1892· 2 entries
Awarded Hayden Memorial Geological Award (1892).
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Wrote Die Zukunft des Silbers which was translated into English by the United States Senate in 1893
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1888· 1 entry
Which was translated into English in 1906
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1886· 1 entry
And the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences in 1895
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1885· 1 entry
That land bridges had connected South America, Africa, India, Australia, and Antarctica, creating a supercontinent which he named Gondwanaland
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1873· 1 entry
And "Suess' water" was immortalized in Johann Strauss’ operetta Die Fledermaus
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1861· 1 entry
Was invited to examine the water supply of Vienna and its sanitary conditions
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1856· 2 entries
Was appointed as an unsalaried professor of paleontology at the University of Vienna, and in 1861 was appointed professor of geology
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And with letters from him and others, Suess applied for a Privatdozent position at the University of Vienna which was dismissed as he did not have a doctorate, and worse, not even a university degree
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1855· 1 entry
Suess married Hermine Strauss (1835-1898), the daughter of a prominent physician from Prague and also a niece of Moritz Hörnes
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1854· 1 entry
Visited Peter Merian (1795-1883), Bernhard Studer (1794-1887) and Arnold Escher von der Linth (1807-1872) in Switzerland
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1846· 1 entry
To the Vienna Polytechnic Institute and in 1848, during an uprising, he became part of the Academic Legion and stood guard in front a bank
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1831· 1 entry
Born 1831-08-20.
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