Reinout Willem van Bemmelen
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Reinout Willem van Bemmelen
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| Born | April 14, 1904 Batavia, Dutch East Indies |
| Died |
November 19, 1983 (aged 79) Oberdrauburg (Austria) |
| Nationality | Dutch |
| Fields | geology |
| Known for | orogeny |
| Notable awards | Wollaston Medal (1977) |
Reinout Willem van Bemmelen, also known as Rein van Bemmelen, (April 14, 1904 Batavia, Dutch East Indies – November 19, 1983 Unterpirkach, Austria) was a Dutch geologist whose interests were structural geology, economic geology and volcanology. He is known for his work on these subjects and the geology of Indonesia.
Rein van Bemmelen was born in Batavia and spent his youth in the Dutch East Indies, where his father Willem van Bemmelen was the director of the Magnetic, Meteorological and Seismological Observatory. From 1920 to 1927 he studied mining engineering at Delft University in the Netherlands. Among his teachers were H.A. Brouwer and G.A.F. Molengraaff. Van Bemmelen became PhD in 1927 with a study on the geology of the Cordillera Bética. He took courses in volcanology at Naples and then worked with the geological survey in the Dutch East Indies, where he mapped parts of Java and Sumatra. From 1933 to 1935 he studied pedology at the Technical University of Vienna. After that he went back to Java to continue his research there. His main interest was in volcanology (magmas and pyroclastic rocks), structural geology and tectonics, especially sliding tectonics.
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