Ikuo Kushiro

Ikuo Kushiro ( Japanese 久 城 育 夫 , Kushiro Ikuo ; * 1934 ) is a Japanese petrologist and professor emeritus from the University of Tokyo . Kushiro's merits lie in the field of experimental petrology, his experiments on peridotites contributed significantly to the understanding of the formation of magma under ocean ridges and island arches .

Life

Between 1953 and 1957 Kushiro studied geology at the University of Tokyo. After graduating he was a doctoral student under Hisashi Kuno and studied the petrology of magmatites . After his graduation in 1962, he worked for three years at the Geophysical Laboratory of the Carnegie Institution in Washington, DC , specializing in experimental petrology under the direction of Frank Schairer and Hatten Schuyler Yoder . The central subject of his work was the formation of basaltic magmas with special consideration of the role of water. In 1967, after two years at the University of Tokyo, he returned to the Geophysical Laboratory as a postdoctoral fellow , where he was employed as a scientist from 1971 to 1981. In 1969 he was involved in the investigation of rock samples that had been brought back from the moon by Apollo 11 as part of the Apollo program . In 1974 he became professor of petrology at the University of Tokyo, but at the same time remained an employee of the Carnegie Institution.

From 1990 to 1994 Kushiro was the scientific dean of the University of Tokyo, after which he was appointed vice president of the university. After his retirement from the University of Tokyo, Kushiro went to the Institute for Study of the Earth's Interior at Okayama University as head of the institute , where he stayed until 1999. Since then he has worked as a director at the Institute for Frontier Research on Earth Evolution (IFREE) near Tokyo.

honors and awards

In 1983, Kushiro was elected to the National Academy of Sciences . In 1997 he became an honorary member of the Geochemical Society and the European Association of Geochemistry . In 1999 he received the Harry H. Hess Medal of the American Geophysical Union , and in the same year the Roebling Medal of the Mineralogy Society of America and the Arthur Holmes Medal of the European Union of Geosciences . In 2003 the Geological Society of London awarded him the Wollaston Medal . In 2009 he was awarded the Japanese Order of the Sacred Treasure , 2nd class. In the same year the newly discovered mineral kushiroite from the pyroxene group was named after him.

literature

• Ikuo Kushiro Receives One of Japan's Highest Awards for Public Service. Article from the Geophysical Laboratory of the Carnegie Institution on the occasion of the award of the Zuihōjukōshō Order
• Davis A. Young: Mind over magma: the story of igneous petrology . Princeton University Press, 2003, ISBN 0-691-10279-1 , pp. 516 ( p. 516 in Google Book Search).

Web links

• Nippon Gakushiin / Japan Academy : Bibliography of Kushiro ( Japanese , English )

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Wollaston Medal - Prof. Ikuo Kushiro. ( Memento of the original from May 7, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Laudation for Kushiro on the occasion of the award of the Wollaston Medal in 2003  
2. ^ Davis A. Young: Mind over magma: the story of igneous petrology . Princeton University Press, 2003, ISBN 0-691-10279-1 , pp. 516 ( p. 516 in Google Book Search).
3. ↑ Ikuo Kushiro Receives 1999 Harry H. Hess Medal. Laudation to Kushiro on the occasion of the award of the Harry H. Hess Medal
4. ↑ MSA AWARDS LUNCHEON AT 1999 GSA MEETING. ( Memento of the original from September 26, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. The Lattice - Newsletter of the Mineralogy Society of America, Vol. 15, No. Nov. 4, 1999.  
5. ^ List of Arthur Holmes Medal Prize winners from 1983 to 2003
6. ↑ Ikuo Kushiro Receives One of Japan's Highest Awards for Public Service. (No longer available online.) Carnegie Geophysical Laboratory, formerly the original ; accessed on September 9, 2010 (English).  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.    
7. ↑ Makoto Kimura, Takashi Mikouchi, Akio Suzuki, Masaaki Miyahara, Eiji Ohtani and Ahmed El Goresy: Kushiroite, CaAlAlSiO ₆ : A new mineral of the pyroxene group from the ALH 85085 CH chondrite, and its genetic significance in refractory inclusions . In: American Mineralogist . tape 94 , 2009, p. 1479–1482 (English, available online at rruff.info [PDF; 503 kB ; accessed on March 27, 2019]).