Johann-Dietrich Wörner made a career in technology at a time when the terms of that career were still being set.
The record lists Johann-Dietrich Wörner as German engineer.
Johann-Dietrich Wörner was born at Kassel in 1954. His recorded nationality is Germany. He was educated at Technische Universität Berlin and Technical University of Darmstadt.
The twentieth century made work collective, expensive and political, with consequences that reached well beyond the people doing it.
He worked as civil engineer, university teacher and executive.
His affiliations include Technical University of Darmstadt.
Technology is judged by adoption: an invention nobody uses is a curiosity.
His recorded fields of work are civil engineering studies, pedagogy and international organization.
Recognition followed: Hessian Order of Merit at ribbon (2008) and Officer's Cross of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany (2016).
Working from Germany shaped what was possible - the audiences within reach, the institutions that would have him, the language the work first appeared in.
Johann-Dietrich Wörner is still at work, and the final assessment has not been made - the ordinary condition of a living career.
Achievements
- Hessian Order of Merit at ribbon — 2008
- Officer's Cross of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany — 2016
- Affiliated with Technical University of Darmstadt
- Educated at Technische Universität Berlin and Technical University of Darmstadt
- Worked as civil engineer, university teacher and executive
