Paul A. Ramdohr (1 January 1890 in Überlingen – 8 March 1985 in Hohensachsen/Weinheim), was a German mineralogist, ore deposit-researcher and a pioneer of ore microscopy.
After attending school at the "Alten Gymnasium" of Darmstadt and studying at the University of Heidelberg, he earned his Doctorate in 1919 in Göttingen with a Dissertation on Basalts of the Blauen Kuppe near Eschwege. His Habilitation was completed soon thereafter under the direction of W. Bruhns on the topic of the Gabbros in the area of Böllstein/Brombachtal. In 1926, he took a position at the University of Aachen as Professor of Mineralogy, Petrography and Ore Geology. In 1934 he moved to the Humboldt University of Berlin, and in 1951 to the University of Heidelberg. There he occupied the Professorship of Mineralogy, which he held until 1958.
Paul Ramdohr was married and had four sons and one daughter.
1926: Kristallographie, Göschen-Band together with Willy Bruhns
1931–1934: Lehrbuch der Erzmikroskopie Vols. 1 und 2, with Hans Schneiderhöhn
1936: Lehrbuch der Mineralogie together with Friedrich Klockmann
1924: Beobachtungen an opaken Erzen
1928: Über den Mineralbestand und die Strukturen der Erze des Rammelbergs
1948: Lehrbuch der Mineralogie 13. Edition, with Klockmann
1950: Die Erzmineralien und ihre Verwachsungen
1954: Lehrbuch der Mineralogie 14. Edition, with Klockmann
1955: Petrografie Göschen-Band 4. Edition
1955: The ore minerals and their intergrowth edited by ILMEN, 2014
1965: Kristallographie Göschen-Band
1973: The opaque minerals in stony meteorites
1975: Die Erzmineralien und ihre Verwachsungen 4. Auflage
1978: Lehrbuch der Mineralogie 16. Auflage together with Klockmann and Karl Hugo Strunz
1980: The ore minerals and their intergrowth 2nd Edition
1955: Dr.-Ing. E.h. (TU Berlin)
1960: Dr. rer. Nat. h.c. (RWTH Aachen)
1968: Ph. D. Es. Sci. (Universität Nancy)
1969: Dr. rer. Nat. h.c. (TU Clausthal)
1973: Dr.-Ing. de Minas, h.c. (Madrid)
Prizes and Honors
1937: Membership in the Prussian Academy of Science
1936–1947: President of the German Mineralogical Society
1951: Membership in the Heidelberg Academy of Science
1962: Roebling Medal of the Mineralogical Society of America
1965–1985: Honorary President of the SGA
1970: Georg-Agricola-Medal
1978: Penrose Gold Medal
1979: Leonard Medal
