Professor
Stein Bjornar Jacobsen
Harvard University
Geochemist; Educator
Area
Mathematical and Physical Sciences
Specialty
Astronomy, Astrophysics, and Earth Sciences
Elected
2009
Professor of Geochemistry. Used the distribution of long-lived and extinct radioisotopes to date the formation of the earth's core and to define the effects of core separation on the early history of the core-mantle-crust system. Work has been distinguished throughout by theoretical and experimental elegance.
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