Edward Anders

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Edward Anders (born June 21, 1926 in Libau , Latvia , as Eduards Alperovičs ) is a Latvian- American geochemist and Holocaust researcher .

Life

Anders grew up in a German-Baltic assimilated Jewish family in Libau. He and his mother survived the Holocaust because the mother was able to successfully build the legend that she was raised as an Aryan foundling in a Jewish family. Anders' father and 24 other family members were murdered in the Holocaust. Anders and his mother fled to Germany in 1944. From 1946 to 1949 Anders als Displaced Person studied chemistry at the University of Munich with a UNRRA program . He testified as a witness at the Nuremberg trials .

Edward Anders emigrated to the USA in 1949, where he received a Masters degree from Columbia University in 1951 and a Ph.D. in 1954. acquired. From 1955 to 1991 he was Professor of Chemistry at the University of Chicago , and from 1968 he also worked for the Field Museum of Natural History . Guest professorships have taken him to the California Institute of Technology , the University of Turin and several times to the University of Bern .

Anders dealt with the origin, age and composition of meteorites and planets , with interstellar dust in meteorites, with loss of mass in the history of the earth and with the occurrence of various elements . Anders was able to prove that meteorites mostly originated from smaller planets and that organic substances on meteorites are of abiotic origin.

Anders published around 270 scientific publications . It has (as of January 2019) an h-index of 90.

After his retirement he dealt with the Holocaust in Latvia , among other things . He published an autobiography with detailed descriptions of the persecution of the Jews in Latvia and of his own survival. He also managed a website documenting Jewish life in his hometown.

Awards (selection)

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Edward Anders. In: scholar.google.de. Google Scholar , accessed January 5, 2019 .
  2. ^ Newcomb Cleveland Prize Recipients. In: aaas.org. American Association for the Advancement of Science , accessed January 5, 2019 .
  3. ↑ J. Lawrence Smith Medal. In: nasonline.org. National Academy of Sciences , accessed January 5, 2019 .
  4. ↑ Edward Anders. In: gf.org. John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation , accessed January 5, 2019 .
  5. ↑ Book of Members 1780 – present, Chapter A. (PDF; 945 kB) In: American Academy of Arts and Sciences (amacad.org). Retrieved January 5, 2019 .
  6. ↑ Edward Anders. In: nasonline.org. National Academy of Sciences , accessed January 5, 2019 .
  7. ^ VM Goldschmidt Award. In: geochemsoc.org. Geochemical Society , accessed January 5, 2019 .
  8. ^ Gerard P. Kuiper Prize in Planetary Sciences. In: aas.org. American Astronomical Society , accessed January 5, 2019 .
  9. ↑ Edward Anders. In: agu.org. American Geophysical Union , accessed January 5, 2019 .
  10. ^ Steve Koppes: Astronomical Union names asteroids after University scientists. In: uchicago.edu. University of Chicago , June 7, 2001, accessed January 5, 2019 .
  11. ↑ 4815 Anders (1981 EA28). In: nasa.gov. NASA , accessed January 5, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Different, Edward
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Anderss, Eduards; Anders, Ėdvard; Alperovičs, Eduards; Alperovitch, Edward; Anders, Ėdvard A .; Different, Ėdvard Al'perovič
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Latvian-American geochemist and Holocaust researcher
DATE OF BIRTH June 21, 1926
PLACE OF BIRTH Libau , Latvia