Albrecht Penck
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- Born
- 1858
- Died
- 1945
- Works
- 31
Top works
- Landeskunde
- Festband, Albrecht Penck
- Thalgeschichte der obersten Donau
- Die Halbinsel istrien
- Atlas der österreichischen Alpenseen
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Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- A global reference for human genetic variation
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- 2017 ESC Guidelines for the management of acute myocardial infarction in patients presenting with ST-segment elevation
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- Peginterferon alfa-2b plus ribavirin compared with interferon alfa-2b plus ribavirin for initial treatment of chronic hepatitis C: a randomised trial
· 2001 · cited 4,856x
- ChatGPT for good? On opportunities and challenges of large language models for education
· 2023 · cited 4,434x
- The SCARE 2020 Guideline: Updating Consensus Surgical CAse REport (SCARE) Guidelines
· 2020 · cited 4,337x
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Key facts
- Born
- 25 September 1858 ( 1858-09-25 ) , Reudnitz , Kingdom of Saxony
- Died
- 7 March 1945 (1945-03-07) (aged 86), Prague , Bohemia and Moravia , Nazi Germany
- Education
- University of Leipzig
- Awards
- Charles P. Daly Medal (1914) , Vega Medal (1923)
- Fields
- Geomorphology, Quaternary geology , climatology, political geography
- Institutions
- University of Vienna , Harvard University , Humboldt University
- Doctoral advisor
- Ferdinand Zirkel
- Doctoral students
- Jovan Cvijić , Johann Sölch , Eduard Brückner , Alfred Merz , Naomasa Yamasaki
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Key dates
- Born
- 25 September 1858
- Died
- 7 March 1945
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Albrecht
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- Nazi Germany
- Place of death
- Prague
- Child
- Walther Penck
- Occupation
- climatologist
- Educated at
- Leipzig University
- Employer
- Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
- Languages spoken
- German
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Albrecht Penck (25 September 1858 – 7 March 1945) was a German geographer and geologist and the father of Walther Penck.
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1858 births1945 deaths19th-century German geologistsAcademic staff of the Humboldt University of BerlinAcademic staff of the University of ViennaForeign associates of the National Academy of SciencesGerman climatologistsGerman geographersGerman geomorphologistsInternational members of the American Philosophical SocietyMembers of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences