Helmut Moritz#
| Sadly, this member passed away. | |
| Membership Number: | 1215 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | EARTH & COSMIC SCIENCES |
| Elected: | 1992 |
| Main Country of Residence: | AUSTRIA |
| Homepage(s): | http://www.helmut-moritz.at |
Helmut Moritz passed away October 21, 2022.
Positions Held
- Since 2002 Emeritus
- 1971 - 2002 Full Professor, TU Graz
- 1964 - 1971 Full Professor, TU Berlin, Germany
- 1959 Dr.techn. Geodesy, TH Graz, Austria
Fields of Scholarship
- Earth tides
- Geophysics
- Theoretical geodesy
- Physical geodesy
- Statistics end estimation of the gravitational field
- Figure of the Earth and its gravitational field
- Relativistic geodesy
- Geodesy as a part of geophysics
- Geodesy
- Geodetic boundary-value problems
- Earth rotation and time
Honours and Awards
- 1977 Carl-Friedrich-Gauss-Medal, Braunschweig. Sci. Society
- 1983 Alexander-von-Humboldt-Medal, Acad. Sci. Berlin
- 1998 Copernicus-Medal, Polish Acad. Sci.
- 2008 Struve-Medaille, Pulkovo Observatory, Russia
- 2008 Tsiolkovsky-Medal, Moscow
- Academy memberships:
- 1970 Finland
- 1974 Italy / Lincei
- 1976 Austria: corresponding, 1988 full member)
- 1983 Hungary: honorary member
- 1984 Schweden / Engineering Sciences
- 1984 Spain
- 1984 Germany (Berlin)
- 1987 Germany / Leopoldina, Halle
- 1988 Poland
- 1992 Academia Europaea / London
- 1994 Croatia
- 2000 China
- 2001 Jugoslavia / Engineering Sciences
