Henno Martin
Henno Martin was a German professor of geology who, along with Hermann Korn, lived for two and a half years in the Namib Desert to avoid internment during the Second World War.
Career Journey
Background
- Born in
- Freiburg im Breisgau
- Awards
- 🏆 Gustav-Steinmann Medal🏆 Hans-Stille-Medaille
- Doctoral Advisors
- 🎓 Hans Cloos
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"Living and dead matter were so obviously at variance here, and the living matter so obviously triumphant in its adaptability over the dead elements and their rigid laws that the barren wilderness seem…"
"There were many examples in the history of life to show that precisely the most perfectly adapted, the physically biggest and strongest, the most numerous creatures, the lords of whole periods of life…"
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Timeline
1910
Born
Birth1998
Died
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