Alexandra Navrotsky

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Alexandra Navrotsky (born June 20, 1943 in New York City ) is an American geochemist and solid-state chemist .

Alexandra Navrotsky attended the Bronx High School of Science with the completion in 1960 and studied at the University of Chicago , where she in 1963 her Bachelor Accounts and in 1964 her Master acquired Accounts and received his doctorate in Chemistry 1967th As a postdoctoral fellow she was at the TU Clausthal (Institute for Theoretical Metallurgy), where she was also a visiting scientist in 1972, and the Pennsylvania State University . In 1969 she became an assistant professor at Arizona State University , an associate professor in 1974 and a professor in 1978. In 1984/85 she was director of the Center for Solid State Science there. She was a visiting scientist at Bell Laboratories in 1974 and at MIT in 1975. From 1985 she was a professor at Princeton University and the Princeton Materials Institute. From 1988 to 1991 she headed the Department of Geosciences and in 1992 she became Albert G. Blanke Jr. Professor . From 1997 she was Professor of Geochemistry, Chemistry of Ceramics and Environmental Materials ( Ceramic, Earth, and Environmental Materials Chemistry ) at the University of California, Davis and from 2001 Edward Roessler Professor of Mathematical and Physical Sciences and 2003 Distinguished Professor.

It deals with geochemistry, solid state chemistry, chemistry and physics of minerals and of ceramics and materials science. In particular, she investigates the relationship between microscopic structure and macroscopic thermodynamic properties of minerals, ceramics, rocks (especially at the high temperatures and pressures in the earth's mantle) and other complex materials (such as high-temperature superconductors, perovskites, zeolites, spinels, nanophases) using high-temperature calorimetry, among other things .

In 2006 she received the Harry H. Hess Medal , in 2009 the Roebling Medal and in 2002 the Urey Medal of the European Association of Geochemistry and the Benjamin Franklin Medal in Earth Sciences. She is a Fellow of the Mineralogical Society of America , of which she was President in 1992/93, and in 1995 she received an honorary doctorate in Uppsala. From 1973 to 1975 she was a Sloan Research Fellow . In 1993 she became a Fellow of the National Academy of Sciences and in 2011 a member of the American Philosophical Society . She is a Fellow of the Geochemical Society , the Mineralogical Society of Great Britain and Ireland , the American Geophysical Union and the American Ceramic Society, whose Ross Coffin Purdy Award she received in 1995.

From 1986 to 1991 she was editor of Physics and Chemistry of Minerals .

Fonts

  • with Hermann Schmalzried: Solid thermodynamics: Chemistry of the solid state, Verlag Chemie 1975
  • Chemistry and Physics of Earth Materials, Cambridge University Press 1994
  • Editor with Alexander A. Demkov: Materials fundamentals of gate dielectrics, Springer 2005
  • Editor with Donald J. Weidner: Perovskite: a structure of great interest to geophysics and materials science, American Geophysical Union., 1989, 2010
  • Editor with Robert Chaffer Newton: Thermodynamics of minerals and melts: outgrowth, Springer 1981

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Dates of birth according to American Men and Women of Science , Thomson Gale 2004
personal data
SURNAME Navrotsky, Alexandra
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American geochemist
DATE OF BIRTH June 20, 1943
PLACE OF BIRTH New York City