Ore Genesis: The State of the Art

The papers in this volume are all dedicated to Professor Paul Ramdohr, on the occasion of his 90th anniversary. The authors-and many more professional colleagues, friends, and students-owe an immense measure of gratitude to him for his guidance in scientific work and related problems, including principles of teaching and research. The composition of the present volume would not have been possible without the cooperation of all colleagues mentioned on the front page. But the burden of most of the detailed and tedious editorial work rested with two coworkers to whom we owe cordial thanks for the many hours of work, including much of their free time, during the past year. They are Dr. Cornelia Kluth and Dr. Richard A. Zimmermann. The detailed index is entirely their own work. Last but not least, we owe a full measure of thanks also to Professor Ramdohr in connection with difficult scientific questions of the editorial work. He received the originals of the papers at the birthday celebration on 21 February 1980 and keenly read all the papers. Many comments offered by him were transmitted to the authors and incorporated in the editorial work. To the publisher we wish to express our thanks for the great amount of work dedicated to maintaining the known Springer quality of composing and printing. In a time of fast changing methods of publishing this is not an easy task, and we hope, together with the publisher, that the elimination of the circulation of galley proofs did not negatively affect the overall quality. The selection of an appropriate title for a book of this type is not without problems-and this point may well be spelled out in the introductory pages. It is obvious that the tacit subtitle of our 90th Anniversary Volume for Professor Ramdohr must read: The state of the art, as seen by some of his colleagues, friends, and students.