Karl Fuchs#
| Sadly, this member passed away. | |
| Membership Number: | 822 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | EARTH & COSMIC SCIENCES |
| Elected: | 1990 |
| Main Country of Residence: | GERMANY |
Karl Fuchs passed away March 22, 2021.
Positions Held
- 1997 Professor Emeritus
- 1996 Visiting Scientist, USGS Menlo Park
- 1990 & 1994 Visiting Cox-Professor, Stanford University
- 1984 - 1985 Visiting Fellow Research School of Earth Sciences, ANU, Canberra, Australia
- 1971 - 1997 Professor of Geophysics and Director of the Geophysical Institute at Karlsruhe University
- 1968 Habilitation, University of Karlsruhe
- 1965 - 1966 Scientif. Assistant and Assoc. Professor at Karlsruhe University
- 1964 - 1965 Visiting Scientist Saint Louis University, Saint Louis/Missouri, Visiting Professor Southwest Center for Advanced Studies, Dallas/Texas
- 1957 - 1959 Exploration Geophysicist at SEISMOS GmbH in the Brasilian Amazon Basin and the Algerian Sahara
Fields of Scholarship
- Deep seismic sounding and physical properties and composition of the lithosphere/asthenosphere
- Continental rifting
- Stress in the Lithosphere
- Deep continental drilling
- Numerical modelling of wave propagation
- Impact of great earthquakes on society
Honours and Awards
- 1987 Fellow American Geophysical Union (AGU)
- 1989 Fellow Geological Society of London
- 1990 Elected Member of Academia Europea
- 1992 Honorar Member German Geophysical Society (DGG)
- 1990 Elected Member Heidelberg Academy of Science & Humanities
- 1991 Fellow of AAAS
- Associate Royal Astronomical Society
- Heitfeld Award Alfred Wegener Society
- 2002 Professor honoris causa University of Bucharest
