Carl Wilhelm CORRENS Geologist; (b. Tübingen, 19 May 1893 – d. Göttingen, 29 August 1980)

University professor: University of Göttingen, full professor (1938–)

Membership of SASA: Department of Natural Sciences and Mathematics; foreign member from 22 May 1975

Accession speech: Delivered a lecture at the SASA on 27 September 1971: The Origin of Elements in Sedimentary Rocks

Awards and recognitions: dr. h. c. of the universities of Clausthal and Göttingen; Honorary Medal of Great Britain; Albatross Medal of Gothenburg Scientific Society; Stille Medal

Obituary: God. / SANU 87 (1981) 473–474 (S. Pavlović, P. Stevanović, S. Karamata)

Photograph: SANU F-575/1–2