A to Z of Earth Scientists (Notable Scientists) by Alexander E. Gates

Author:Alexander E. Gates [Gates, Alexander E.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Non-Fiction, Reference
ISBN: 9780816045808
Amazon: 0816045801
Publisher: Facts on File
Published: 2002-12-02T05:00:00+00:00

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named distinguished professor of science in 1998, a title which he still holds. Also during that time, he was a guest or visiting scientist at the Japanese National Institute of Polar Research, University of Hawaii at Manoa, and the California Institute of Technology. Harry McSween is married to Susan P. McSween, and they have one child.

Hap McSween has been very productive

throughout his career. He is an author of more than 100 articles in international journals and professional volumes. More recently, he has begun writing popular books as well. He wrote the three books Stardust to Planets: A Geological Tour of the Solar System, Fanfare for Earth: The Origin of our Planet and Life, and Meteorites and their Parent Planets to spread his enthusiasm for science to the general public. His research has been well received by the profession, as shown by his numerous honors and awards. He received the Nininger Award for Meteorite Studies (1977), a National Science Foundation Antarctic Service Medal (1982), the Bradley Prize from the Geological Society of Washington (1985) and two NASA Group Achievement Awards (1983 and 1998). From the University of Hap McSween at a petrographic microscope with a Tennessee, he received the Chancellor’s Award for video monitor attachment showing a microscopic view Research and Creative Achievement (1990) and a of a Martian meteorite (Courtesy of H. McSween Jr.) Senior Research Award (1998), in addition to several teaching awards. The state of South Carolina gave him several awards, including the LeConte the southeastern section, among many other com-Medallion of the South Carolina Science Council mittees. He was an associate editor for interna-

(1999), the Order of the Silver Crescent Award tional journals Icarus, Meteoritics, Geochimica et from the governor of South Carolina (2001), and Cosmochimica Acta, and the Proceedings of the 10th he was inducted as the 21st member of the South Lunar and Planetary Science Conference. He has Carolina Hall of Science and Technology (1999).

also given numerous distinguished lectures and Hap McSween has performed extraordinary

keynote addresses.

service to the profession. He served on 14 NASA teams and panels of critical importance, on several of which he was chief. He also served on several ᨳ

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committees for the National Research Council.

(1933– )

For the Meteoritical Society, he served as president American

(1995–1996), vice president (1993–1994), secre-Structural Geologist

tary, and councilor. For the Geological Society of America he was chair and vice chair of the Plane-Structural geology was largely a descriptive science tary Geology Division and chair and vice chair of with only minor quantitative aspects into the 168 Means, Winthrop D.

1960s. Then there was a revolution in the field to paratuses in at least 10 other universities. He infuse the theories and applications of engineering even taught short courses on the device and ob-and material science. This infusion of quantitative servations. The new Earth Science building at the analysis of deformation led to a mass reexamina-Smithsonian Institution of Washington, D.C., tion of previously observed features within this includes some of Means’s experimental work.

new context. DAVID T. GRIGGS, JOHN G.

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