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Martin Fritz Glaessner | |
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| Born | 25 December 1906 |
| Died | 23 November 1989 (aged 82) |
| Alma mater | University of Vienna (1925–1931) University of Melbourne (1946) |
| Awards | Lyell Medal (1974) Walcott Medal (1982) Eduard Suess Medal (1985) Order of Australia (AM) |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Geology, paleontology |
| Institutions | Naturhistorisches Museum, Vienna (1923–1932) Natural History Museum, London (1930–1931) University of Moscow (1936) University of Adelaide, Australia (1950–1989) South Australian Museum (1953–1989) |
Martin Fritz Glaessner AM (25 December 1906 – 23 November 1989) was a geologist and palaeontologist. Born and educated in the Austro-Hungarian Empire, he spent the majority of his life in working for geoscientific institutes in Austria, Russia, Australia, and studying the geology of the South Pacific in Papua New Guinea and Australia. Glaessner also did early work on the classification of the pre-Cambrian lifeforms now known as the Ediacaran biota, which he proposed were the early antecedents of modern lifeforms.