Egon Althaus#
Email: | nec |
Membership Number: | 924 |
Membership type: | ORDINARY |
Main Country of Residence: | GERMANY |
Section: | EARTH & COSMIC SCIENCES |
Username: | ealthaus |
Elected: | 1990 |

Present and Previous Positions
- Professor Emeritus
- 1972-1974 Dean of the Faculty of Biology and Geology, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
- 1971 Professor of mineralogy and experimental petrology, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
Fields of Scholarship
- Mineralogical behaviour of building materials
- Rock fluids
Honours and Awards
- 1990 Member of the Heidelberg Academy of Sciences
- 1998 Hans Stille Medal
- Doctor honoris causa of Civil Engineering, Technical University of Budapest
- the mineral Althausite was named after Egon Althaus in his honour