Egon Althaus#
| Membership Number: | 924 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Main Country of Residence: | GERMANY |
| Section: | EARTH & COSMIC SCIENCES |
| 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
