Sean Solomon

Sean Solomon

Sean Carl Solomon (born October 24, 1945 in Los Angeles ) is an American geophysicist .

Solomon graduated from Caltech with a bachelor's degree in 1966 and received his PhD in geophysics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1971 with Nafi Toksöz . There he was assistant professor from 1972 and later professor. In 1992 he became director of the Earth Magnetism Department at the Carnegie Institution in Washington DC. In 2012 he became director of the Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory at Columbia University and William B. Ransford Professor of Earth and Planetary Science .

He deals with marine geophysics, seismology, planetary geology and geodynamics and was a senior scientist at NASA's MESSENGER mission to Mercury and was at the Mars Global Surveyor , the Magellan Mission to Venus and the Gravity Recovery and Interior Laboratory (GRAIL, heavy survey of the Mondes) involved. From 1998 to 2008 he was on the board of the NASA Astrobiology Institute.

In 2012 he received the National Medal of Science . From 1996 to 1998 he was President of the American Geophysical Union , of which he is a Fellow. He is a Fellow of the National Academy of Sciences , the American Academy of Arts and Sciences , the Seismological Society of America , the Geological Society of America, and the American Association for the Advancement of Science . In 1982/83 he was a Guggenheim Fellow and a Sloan Research Fellow from 1977 to 1981 . In 1999 he received the Arthur L. Day Prize and the GK Gilbert Award . In 2005 he received the Harry H. Hess Medal from the American Geophysical Union and in 2006 he received the Distinguished Alumni Award from Caltech.

He is married and has four kids.

Web links

• Homepage Columbia University

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Birth and career data according to American Men and Women of Science , Thomson Gale 2004