Dietrich Welte#
| Membership Number: | 976 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | EARTH & COSMIC SCIENCES |
| Elected: | 1990 |
| Main Country of Residence: | GERMANY |
Present and Previous Positions
- 1979 Director and founder of the Institute for Petroleum and Organic Geochemistry at the Research Center Jülich
- 1972 Chair for Petroleum and Coal Geology at the RWTH Aachen
- 1970 - 1972 Professor for Geochemistry at the University of Göttingen
- 1967 - 1970 Welte Research Coordinator at Chevron Oil Field Research Company in La Habra, California
Fields of Scholarship
- Geochemistry
- Petroleum geology
Honours and Awards
- 1966 President's Award, American Association of Petroleum Geologists
- 1979 Clarence Karcher Medal, University Oklahoma
- 1983 Alfred Treibs Award, Geochemical Society, USA
- 1986 Carl Engler Medal, German Society for Petroleum Industry and Coal Chemistry (Deutsche Gesellschaft für Mineralölwirtschaft und Kohlechemie)
- 1989 Gustav Steinmann Medal, German Geological Union (Geologische Vereinigung)
- 1995 Doctor Honoris Cause, Ruhr University Bochum
- 2013 Sidney Powers Award
