GUENTHER FRIEDRICH'S 80th BIRTHDAY SYMPOSIUM AND CELEBRATION

摘要

An 80th Birthday Symposium celebrating Professor Guenther Friedrich's contributions to mineralogy and economic geology was held on Saturday, April 18, 2009, at the RWTH Aachen University. More than 130 of Gunther's students, colleagues, and friends packed the Ford lecture theatre in the new SuperC building. The symposium featured a full afternoon of popular lectures by distinguished scientists, including Professor Peter Herzig (Director of the Leibniz Institute of Marines Sciences, IFM-GEOMAR, Kiel, Germany) on the topic "Marine Gas-Hydrates - Science Fiction or Technology of the Future? " and Professor Steve Scott (University of Toronto), who spoke on the subject "Mines in the Deep Ocean -Mineral Resources of the Future." The final speaker of the day was Professor Franz Michael Meyer (Head of the Department of Mineralogy and Economic Geology, RWTH vachen University), whose lecture was entitled "Search for Gold." The cay of talks was capped off by a superb banquet at the Pullman Aachen Ouellenhof, featuring Gunther's son Peter as the after-dinner speaker. He presented a thoroughly entertaining talk and slide show, many of the pictures secretly provided by "anonymous sources."