Eduard Suess , 1831-1914, Austrian geologist, b. London. He was a professor (1857-1901) at the Univ. of Vienna and served for more than 20 years in the Austrian parliament. He was an authority on structural geology, especially of mountains, and postulated the existence of the giant land mass Gondwanaland (see continental drift ). His great work was Das Antlitz der Erde (5 vol., 1883-1901; tr. The Face of the Earth, 1904-24).
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A history written in stone Matt Ridley on why, if you can read rocks, the earth has a fascinating story to tell
The Sunday Telegraph London; 2/29/2004; MATT RIDLEY; 923 words;
... 155 7222 A CENTURY ago this year, the Austrian geologist Eduard Suess completed his ambitious four-volume history of the earth ... triumphs of 20th-century science, to explain so much that Suess could not. The saga of earth's history, once you know ...
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Commitment freier Mitarbeiter: Erscheinungsformen und Einflussmöglichkeiten am Beispiel von IT-Freelancern**
Zeitschrift für Personalforschung; 7/1/2006; Süß, Stefan; 8999 words;
... Birgit (2004): Identifikation und Loyalitt. In: Gaugler, Eduard/Weber, Wolfgang/Oechsler, Walter A. (Hg.): Handwrterbuch ... Bussing, Andre (2004): Arbeitszufriedenheit. In: Gaugler, Eduard/Weber, Wolfgang/Oechsler, Walter A. (Hg.): Handwrterbuch ... Frederick (1970): The Motivation to Work, New York. Hille, ...
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HOMEGROWN RESURGENCE
Jerusalem Post; 4/12/1996; Helen Kaye; 3047 words;
... comedy and tragedy, past and present become intermixed. Antisemitism also bubbles underneath Paul Kornfeld's The Jew Suess which director Robert Woodruff has done for the Beersheba Theater. Kornfeld's play, based on a real person, traces the rise and fall of Suess, played by Doron Tavori, at the court of ...
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THE VIENNESE SCHOLAR WHO ALMOST BECAME KING OF ALBANIA: BARON FRANZ NOPCSA AND HIS CONTRIBUTION TO ALBANIAN STUDIES.
East European Quarterly; 9/22/1999; Elsie, Robert; 7785 words;
... he sent to the geologist and palaeontologist, Professor Eduard Suess in Vienna. From graduation in 1897 to 1903, Nopcsa studied under Suess at the University of Vienna, which was a leading centre ... paleontology. Nopcsa. Society of Vertebrate Paleontology News Bulletin, New York, 43 (1955), p ... .
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(book reviews)
The Geographical Review; 1/1/1993; Sherman, Douglas J.; 971 words;
... Especially cogent are the summaries of isostasy and of the development of eustatic theory and the contributions of Eduard Suess. The second part reviews and summarizes the global debate spurred by the geographical-cycle model of Davis. However ...
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Theirs is the Earth, and all that's in it; Geology.(The giants of geology)
The Economist (US); 3/27/2004; 492 words;
... titanic as the struggle for space of the plates themselves. The names of long-forgotten geologists litter the pages. Eduard Suess assembled much of the data that showed the continents must have moved, but could not bring himself to draw that awesome ...
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