GFZ POTSDAM – The geoscientist Hauke Marquardt from the Free University Berlin /GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences received the first prize in the category of natural science and technology and a prize money of € 30 000 for his thesis, with which he could prove that the velocity of the outgoing shear waves from earthquakes (S-waves) in Earth’s lower mantle very much depends on the spatial orientation of the mineral ferropericlase. Read More
