Katharina Perch-Nielsen

Katharina Perch-Nielsen
Born 1940 (age 77–78)
Switzerland
Nationality Swiss
Occupation geologist, micropaleontologist
Employer Swiss Federal Institute of Technology
Awards Steno Medal (1998)
The Brady Medal (2008)
Katharina Perch-Nielsen
Medal record
Women's orienteering
Representing   Switzerland
World Championships
1966 Fiskars Individual
European Championships
1964 Le Brassus Relay

Katharina von Salis Perch-Nielsen (born 1940) is a Swiss geologist and orienteering competitor.[1][2]

Sports career

She competed at the very first European Orienteering Championships, in 1962, where she placed 6th in the individual contest. She also won a bronze medal in the unofficial relay, with the Swiss team. At the 1964 European Orienteering Championships, she won a silver medal in the relay for Switzerland, and placed tenth in the individual event.[3] She won a silver medal in the individual event at the 1966 World Orienteering Championships in Fiskars, and finished 4th in the relay event with the Swiss team.[4]

Scientific career

Perch-Nielsen was awarded the Steno Medal in 1998, for her work in micropaleontology in Denmark and Greenland, and as a pioneer in the study of coccoliths.[5][6]

Personal life

A daughter of Charlotte v. Salis, Perch-Nielsen grew up in Zollikofen, in the canton of Bern in Switzerland. She married Danish chemical engineer Jørgen Perch-Nielsen, and has three children. She was appointed professor at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) in Zürich.[2]

Selected works

  • Geologische und sedimentologische Untersuchungen in Molasse und Quartär südöstlich Wolhusen (1965)
  • Der Feinbau und die Klassifikation der Coccolithen aus dem Maastrichtien von Dänemark (1968)
  • Revision of Triassic stratigraphy of the Scoresby Land and Jameson Land region, East Greenland (1974)

References

  1. ↑ "Laudatio für Katharina von Salis" (PDF). ethz.ch (in German). Universität Zürich. Retrieved 22 July 2018.
  2. 1 2 "Katharina v. Salis Perch-Nielsen (K.9, 1940)". wiki.hitz-family.info (in German). Retrieved 22 July 2018.
  3. ↑ European Orienteering Championships, senior statistics 1962-2004
  4. ↑ "World Orienteering Championships 1966". International Orienteering Federation. Retrieved 6 December 2017.
  5. ↑ "Stenomedaljen 1998". 2dgf.dk (in Danish). Geological Society of Denmark. Retrieved 22 July 2018.
  6. ↑ "DGF. Foreningsmeddelelser 27. Katharina von Salis Perch Nielsen modtager Stenomedaljen af DGF's formand Svend Stouge". docplayer.dk (in Danish). Retrieved 22 July 2018.
  7. ↑ IPNI.  Perch-Nielsen.


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