rudolf trumpy

Rudolf Trumpy is a famous Swiss Geologist, who was born in 1921 in the small Swiss town of Glarus. He graduated from the ETH Zrich in the late 1940s with a thesis titled: Der Lias der Glarner Alpen. From 1947 to 1953 he spent his post-doctoral years in Lausanne before being appointed professor at ETH Zrich in 1953. He would remain there until 1986. His research mainly concentrated on alpine geology. However, he also published papers on extra-alpine regions like Greenland, the Montagne Noire and the Sahara. He was the author of the reference book: Geology of Switzerland. Recipient of numerous awards and prizes as the Wollaston Medal (equivalent for geologists of the Nobel Prize) Trumpy, Rudolf

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