Eduard Suess
Eduard Suess · Science & Medicine
Geologist who founded modern tectonics and hypothesized the supercontinent Gondwanaland
1831, London, England — 1914, Vienna, Austria-Hungary
United Kingdom · Austria
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Suess was a geologist who founded modern tectonics, coined the terms 'biosphere' and 'Tethys,' and hypothesized the former supercontinent Gondwanaland. He descended from a Jewish family on his mother's side (the Zdekauers of Prague), who had converted to Protestantism before his birth; he nonetheless faced antisemitic attacks over that ancestry as rector of the University of Vienna.
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Geologist who founded modern tectonics and hypothesized the supercontinent Gondwanaland
Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Earth & Planetary Science
