H. Jay Melosh
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Gender | Male |
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Age | 77 |
Date of birth | June 23,1947 |
Zodiac sign | Cancer |
Born | Paterson |
New Jersey | |
United States | |
Field | Geophysics |
Notable student | Elizabeth Turtle |
Job | Physicist |
Books | Planetary Surface Processes |
Impact cratering | |
Awards | Guggenheim Fellowship for Natural Sciences, US & Canada |
Education | California Institute of Technology |
Princeton University | |
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Date of Upd. | |
ID | 1290310 |
H. Jay Melosh Life story
H. Jay Melosh was an American geophysicist specialising in impact cratering. He earned a degree in physics from Princeton University and a doctoral degree in physics and geology from Caltech in 1972. His PhD thesis concerned quarks.