Herbert Palme#
Membership Number: | 3931 |
Membership type: | ORDINARY |
Section: | EARTH & COSMIC SCIENCES |
Elected: | 2014 |
Main Country of Residence: | GERMANY |
Homepage(s): | http://www.senckenberg.de/root/index.php?page_id=2886 |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2008 - present voluntary collaborator, Research Institute and Museum of Nature Senckenberg, Frankfurt
- 1994- 2008 Professor of Mineralogy and Geochemistry (C4), Universität zu Köln, Institute of Mineralogy and Geochemistry
- 1991, three months California Institute of Technology, Pasadena
- 1985, three months Lunar and Planetary Laboratory, University of Arizona, Tucson
- 1977 - 1994 Senior Research Assistant at the Max-Planck-Institut für Chemie, Mainz
- 1976 - 1977 Research Associate, Enrico Fermi Institute, University of Chicago (Prof. E. Anders)
- 1971 -1976 Research scientist at the Max-Planck-Institut für Chemie, Abteilung Kosmochemie, Mainz
Fields of Scholarship
- Meteoritics
- Mantle geochemistry
- Core geochemistry
- Analytical geochemistry
- Cosmochemistry
Honours and Awards
- 1986 Fellow of the Meteoritical Society
- 2002 Fellow of the Geochemical Society
- 2000 Korrespondierendes Mitglied der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften
- 2000 Ordentliches Mitglied der Nordrhein-Westfälischen Akademie der Wissenschaften
- 2002 Mitglied der Deutschen Akademie der Naturforscher Leopoldina
- 2003 Leonard Medal of the Meteoritical Society
- 2006 Urey Medal of the Geochemical Society and the European Association of Geochemistry
- 2011 Abraham-Gottlob-Werner Medaille der Deutschen Mineralogischen Gesellschaft