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Sean Solomon

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Sean Solomon
Born
Sean Carl Solomon

(1945-10-24)October 24, 1945(age 78)
Los Angeles,California
NationalityAmerican
Alma materCalifornia Institute of Technology
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Known forScience lead forMESSENGERand director of the Department of Terrestrial Magnetism at theCarnegie Institution for Science
AwardsG. K. Gilbert Award,Arthur L. Day Prize and Lectureship,National Medal of Science(2012)
Scientific career
FieldsPlanetary science
Geophysics
InstitutionsColumbia University
Carnegie Institution
Doctoral advisorM. Nafi Toksöz

Sean Carl Solomon(born October 24, 1945) is the director of theLamont–Doherty Earth ObservatoryofColumbia University,where he is also the William B. RansfordProfessorof Earth and Planetary Science.[1]Before moving to Columbia in 2012, he was the director of the Department of Terrestrial Magnetism at theCarnegie InstitutioninWashington, D.C.His research area is ingeophysics,including the fields of planetary geology, seismology, marine geophysics, and geodynamics.[2]Solomon is theprincipal investigatoron theNASAMESSENGERmission toMercury.[3]He is also a team member on theGravity Recovery and Interior Laboratory missionand the Plume-LithosphereUndersea Melt Experiment (PLUME).

Education[edit]

Solomon was born inLos Angeles,Californiaon October 24, 1945.[4]

Solomon received hisB.S.from theCalifornia Institute of Technology,and hisPh.D.in geophysics from theMassachusetts Institute of Technology(MIT) in 1971.

Career[edit]

From 1972 through 1992 he was an assistant, associate, and full professor at MIT. For the next 20 years he was Director of the Department of Terrestrial Magnetism of theCarnegie Institution of Washington.He assumed his current positions at Columbia in 2012. Solomon has served as Principal Investigator for the Carnegie Institution's part of theNASA Astrobiology Institute(NAI) and member of the Earth Institute External Advisory Board atColumbia University.[5]He has been a member of theMagellan Project Science Team,Radar Investigation Group[6]and theMars OrbiterLaser Altimeter Team. He has been on numerous oceanographic expeditions. Solomon continues to serve on committees.

Awards and honors[edit]

Solomon is the recipient of the 1999G. K. Gilbert Awardfrom theGeological Society of Americaand theArthur L. Day Prize and Lectureshipfrom the National Academy of Sciences also in 1999. He was president of theAmerican Geophysical Unionfrom 1996 to 1998. In 2005, Solomon was awarded the Harry H. Hess Medal by the American Geophysical Union.[7]The medal is given for outstanding achievements on research on the evolution of Earth and other planets. He received the Distinguished Alumni Award from the California Institute of Technology in 2006.[8]He was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1995.[9]In 2012, he was named a National Medal of Science laureate.[10]In 2014, President Barack Obama presented Solomon with the National Medal of Science.[11]

References[edit]

  1. ^Geophysicist Sean C. Solomon Named New Director of Columbia’s Lamont–Doherty Earth Observatory[1].Retrieved 04-04-2012
  2. ^Sean C. Solomonhttp://www.dtm.ciw.edu/scs/.Retrieved 11-03-2010
  3. ^"MESSENGER: MErcury Surface, Space ENvironment, GEochemistry, and Ranging".Archived fromthe originalon 2008-07-24.Retrieved2010-10-07..Retrieved 11-03-2010
  4. ^American Men and Women of Science,R.R. Bowker(New Providence, NJ), 1998–1999
  5. ^External Advisory Boardhttp://www.earth.columbia.edu/articles/views/1006[permanent dead link]
  6. ^Magellan: The Unveiling of Venushttps://history.nasa.gov/JPL-400-345/magellan.htm.Retrieved 11/03/2010
  7. ^http://www.agu.org/about/honors/union/hess/solomon_seanc.shtmlSean C. Solomon Receives 2005 Harry H. Hess Medal. Retrieved 2010-10-20
  8. ^Distinguished Alumni Awardhttp://alumni.caltech.edu/distinguished_alumni/Archived2010-10-07 at theWayback Machine.Retrieved 11-03-2010
  9. ^https://www.amacad.org/multimedia/pdfs/publications/bookofmembers/electionIndex1950-1999.pdf[bare URL PDF]
  10. ^"Sean Solomon".
  11. ^"President Obama honors nation's top scientists and innovators".NSF.Retrieved2014-10-03.

External links[edit]

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