Albert Heim
Albert Heim | |
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Born | 12 April 1849 |
Died | 31 August 1937 | (aged 88)
Nationality | Swiss |
Awards | Wollaston Medal (1904) Marcel Benoist Prize (1923) Foreign Member of the Royal Society[1] |
Scientific career | |
Fields | geology |
Albert Heim (12 April 1849 – 31 August 1937) was a Swiss geologist, noted for his three-volume Geologie der Schweiz.[2]
Born in
In 1873 he became professor of
He was especially distinguished for his researches on the structure of the Alps and for the light thereby thrown on the structure of mountain masses in general. He traced the plications from minor to major stages, and illustrated the remarkable foldings and overthrust faultings in numerous sections and with the aid of pictorial drawings.[3] His initial misinterpretation of the Glarus Alps as resulting entirely from folding rather than from a major thrust fault, an error which he acknowledged in 1901, did not detract measurably from his considerable contributions.[4]
His work, Mechanismus der Gebirgsbildung (1878), is now regarded as a classic, and it served to inspire
A constant kinetic friction coefficient controlling the movement of
In 1908, on the 25th anniversary of the founding of the Swiss Kennel Club, two short-haired
Heim was a Sennenhund expert, and started to encourage breeders to take an interest in them. These efforts resulted in the re-establishment of the breed. In 1909, the dogs were recognized as a separate breed by the Swiss Kennel Club and entered as "Grosser Schweizer Sennenhund" in Volume 12 of the Swiss stud book.
References
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- ^ Heim, Albert. Geologie der Schweiz. C. H. Tauchnitz. Retrieved 31 May 2017 – via Hathi Trust.
- ^ a b c d public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Heim, Albert von St Gallen". Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 13 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 213. One or more of the preceding sentences incorporates text from a publication now in the
- ISBN 9780307574336.
- ^ a b c Fédération Cynologique Internationale for Dogs Worldwide. Retrieved May 4, 2010.
- ^ Great Swiss Mountain Dog Archived February 25, 2009, at the Wayback Machine (in English), Vertebrate Animals Department, Naturhistoriches Museum der Burgergemeinde Bern
- ISBN 9780879697815. Retrieved May 1, 2010.
External links
- Works by Albert Heim at Biodiversity Heritage Library
- Works by Albert Heim at Open Library
- Works by or about Albert Heim at Internet Archive
- Albert Heim in German, French and Italian in the online Historical Dictionary of Switzerland.
- Albert Heim in the German National Library catalogue