 | Dietrich Hugo Welte |
Foreign member
Department of Mathematics, Physics and Geoscience
Membership of SASA
Foreign member since 30 October 2003
Field of study
Organic geochemistry, petroleum geology
Education
PhD (1959), University of Würzburg
Career
RWTH Aachen University, full professor (1972‒1997); the International University of Bremen, full professor (2002‒); director of the Jülich Research Centre
Membership of other academies
North Rhine-Westphalian Academy of Sciences and Arts (1978); Academia Europaea, London (1991); the Academy of Sciences and Literature, Germany (1996)
Membership of specialist associations
Scientific Committee – geosciences, German Science Foundation (1986‒1996); GEOMAR Scientific Committee (1998)
Awards and recognitions
President’s Award of the American Association of Petroleum Geologists (1966);
Clarence Karcher Medal from the University of Oklahoma (1979);
Alfred Treibs Award from the Geochemical Society, USA (1983);
Carl Engler Medal from the German Society for Mineral Oil Industry and Coal Chemistry -DGMK (1986);
Gustav Steinmann Medal, from the Geological Association of Germany (1989);
American Association of Petroleum Geologists International Award (2000);
Honorary doctorate from the Ruhr University, Germany (1995).