Martin Glaessner

Martin Fritz Glaessner AM (25 December 1906 – 23 November 1989) was a geologist and palaeontologist. Born and educated in the Austro-Hungarian Empire, he spent the majority of his life in working for geoscientific institutes in Austria, Russia, Australia, and studying the geology of the South Pacific in Papua New Guinea and 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.

Martin Fritz Glaessner
Born(1906-12-25)December 25, 1906
Aussig, Austro-Hungarian Empire
DiedNovember 23, 1989(1989-11-23) (aged 82)
Melbourne, Australia
Alma materUniversity of Vienna (1925–1931)
University of Melbourne (1946)
AwardsLyell Medal (1974)
Walcott Medal (1982)
Eduard Suess Medal (1985)
Order of Australia (AM)
Scientific career
FieldsGeology, paleontology
InstitutionsNaturhistorisches Museum, Vienna (1923–1932)
Natural History Museum, London (1930–1931)
University of Moscow (1936)
University of Adelaide, Australia (1950–1989)
South Australian Museum (1953–1989)
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