Enrico Bonatti ( Italian: Enrico Bonatti ; born 1936 ) is an Italian geologist.
| Enrico Bonatti | |
|---|---|
| Date of Birth | September 28, 1936 (82 years) |
| Place of Birth | Rome , Italy |
| A country |  Italy |
| Place of work | |
| Alma mater | University of Pisa |
| Awards and prizes | Feltrinelli Prize |
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Biography
Born on September 28, 1936 [1] in Rome.
He graduated from the University of Pisa , received a geological education.
In 1959, he left Italy and during the year studied paleolimnology at Yale University under the guidance of the pioneer of this trend, J. Hutchinson . In 1960, Bonatti defended his master's thesis at the University of Pisa and until 1964 he worked at the Scripps Oceanographic Institute in California (together with the Swedish geologist G. Arrhenius ). In 1964, Enrico Bonatti was appointed assistant professor at the Institute of Marine Research, University of Miami . After defending his doctoral dissertation at the University of Pisa in 1967, he became professor of marine geology at the University of Miami, where he worked until 1975.
Since 1975, the scientific career of the Italian geologist has been associated with the Lamont-Doherty Geophysical Observatory of Columbia University . In 1997, Bonatti returned to the University of Pisa as a professor of marine geology and in the same year became director of the Institute of Marine Geology of the Italian Research Council in Bologna . Since 2003, Enrico Bonatti has been teaching Geodynamics at the University of Rome .
In 1966, an Italian scientist first came to the USSR at the Oceanographic Congress in Moscow, and later visited the Urals and Siberia. On March 31, 1994, Bonatti was elected a foreign member of the Russian Academy of Sciences in the Department of Geology, Geophysics, Geochemistry and Mining Sciences (tectonics, marine geology, ore formation theory). [2] Since 2003, Enrique Bonatti is a member of the American Geophysical Union. In 2010, he became a full member of the European Academy of Sciences . [3]
In 2001, the Linchea Academy in Rome awarded the E. Bonatti Antonio Feltrinelli Prize . The Royal Academy of Sciences of Sweden awarded the Hans Petterson Bronze Medal in Oceanography in 1999 to the geologist.
Literature
- Foreign members of the Russian Academy of Sciences of the XVIII-XXI centuries: Geology and mining sciences. / Ed. editor IG Malakhov. M .: GC RAS , 2012. - 504 p. ISBN 978-5-904509-08-8 (e-version).