Serge von Bubnoff, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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German-Baltic geologist and geotechnical engineer
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Place of Birth: Saint Petersburg
About Serge von Bubnoff
- Sergius Nikolajewitsch von Bubnoff (15 July 1888 in Saint Petersburg – 16 November 1957 in Berlin) was a geologist and geotechnical engineer with Germano-Baltic ancestry who made important contributions to the rebuilding of geological research in East Germany after World War II.
- Starting in 1922, he was a professor at the University of Breslau.
- In 1929 he became a professor at the University of Greifswald and in 1950, he started his professorship at the Humboldt-University of Berlin.
- The Bubnoff unit, which is the unit of measure for the speed of geological processes, is named after him.
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