E. Bruce Watson

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Edward Bruce Watson (* 1950 ) is an American geochemist at the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy , New York .

Watson earned a bachelor's degree in geology from the University of New Hampshire in 1972 and a Ph.D. from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1976. in geochemistry. He worked as a postdoctoral fellow at the Carnegie Institution of Washington before receiving a professorship at the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in 1977 . Research stays took him to Macquarie University ( Sydney , Australia) in 1980 and to the Max Planck Institute for Chemistry ( Mainz , Germany) in 1984 . Since 2011 he has also held a professorship for materials science and engineering .

Watson is concerned with the geochemistry of the strata of the earth that are beyond drilling or other direct observation. Under experimental conditions that correspond to those at a depth of 150 km in terms of pressure and temperature, he investigates the flow of melts and liquids (including supercritical water ), migration of atoms in crystals , growth and dissolution of crystals and their uptake of trace elements , arrangement of trace elements at the grain boundary , the microstructure of partially melted solid rock and the high-temperature behavior of rare elements in minerals that accumulate radioactive elements and with which information about the history of the earth can be obtained.

In 1996 Watson was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences , and in 1997 to the National Academy of Sciences . In 1998 he received the Arthur L. Day Medal of the Geological Society of America , the VM Goldschmidt Award of the Geochemical Society in 2005 , the Walter H. Bucher Medal of the American Geophysical Union in 2006 , the Murchison Medal of the Geological Society of London in 2011 and the Roebling in 2018 Medal from the Mineralogical Society of America , of which he was President in 1998. In 2013 he received an honorary doctorate from the University of Chicago .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Book of Members 1780 – present, Chapter W. (PDF; 852 kB) In: American Academy of Arts and Sciences (amacad.org). Retrieved February 18, 2018 .
  2. ↑ Bruce Watson. In: nasonline.org. Retrieved February 18, 2018 .
  3. ^ Arthur L. Day Medal. In: geosociety.org. March 14, 2012, accessed February 18, 2018 .
  4. ^ VM Goldschmidt Award. In: geochemsoc.org. Retrieved February 18, 2018 .
  5. ^ E. Bruce Watson - Honors Program. In: honors.agu.org. December 13, 2006, accessed February 18, 2018 .
  6. ^ The Geological Society of London - Murchison Medal. Retrieved February 18, 2018 .
  7. ^ Mineralogical Society of America. In: facebook.com. November 14, 2017, accessed February 2, 2018 .
personal data
SURNAME Watson, E. Bruce
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Watson, Edward Bruce
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American geochemist
DATE OF BIRTH 1950