Martin Glaessner Scientist

Martin Fritz Glaessner AM (25 December 1906 – 23 November 1989) was a geologist and palaeontologist. Born and educated in Austro-Hungarian Empire, he spent the majority of his life in working for oil companies in Russia, and studying the geology of the South Pacific in Australia. Glaessner also did early work on the classification of the pre-Cambrian lifeforms now known as the Ediacaran biota, which he proposed were the early antecedents of modern lifeforms.

Personal facts

Birth dateDecember 25, 1906
Birth place
Austria-Hungary , Ústí nad Labem
Date of deathNovember 23, 1989
Place of death
Australia , Melbourne
Education
University of Vienna
University of Melbourne

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Scientist

awards
Order of Australia
Lyell Medal
Charles Doolittle Walcott Medal
Suess Medal
Field of study
Geology
Paleontology

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