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Courses Taught |
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ESS 9 - Solar System and Planets.
ESS 235B - Current Research in Geochemistry
ESS M285 - Origin and Evolution of Solar System
ESS 295B - Current Research in Earth and Space Sciences
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Education |
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| | B.S., 1955, University of Arkansas
Ph.D., 1958, MIT |
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Current Research Interest |
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| | Cosmochemistry, origin and composition of meteorites; evolution of the solar nebula; neutron activation; noble metals as tracers of major impacts on the Earth; origin of tektites. |
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Current Research Projects |
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Honors and Organizations |
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| | J. L. Smith Medal, Nat. Acad. of Sciences, 2003 |
| | Fellow, Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, 1999 |
| | Corresponding member, Danish Acad. of Sciences, 1993 |
| | Leonard Medal, Meteoritical Society, 1992 |
| | Asteroid 4783 was named Wasson, 1991 |
| | Fellow, American Geophysical Union, 1984 |
| | Guggenheim Fellow 1971-72 (Max-Planck-Institut, Mainz) |
| | NIH Special Fellow 1963-64 (University of Bern) |
| | NSF Postdoctoral Fellow 1958-59 (Techn. Hochschule, Munich) |
| | NSF Predoctoral Fellow 1956-58 (MIT) |
| Professional Societies and Organizations |
| | Amer. Astron. Soc., Div. Planetary Science 1975- |
| | American Geophysical Union (fellow) 1961- |
| | Geochemical Society 1961- |
| | International Astronomical Union 1975- |
| | International Association of Geochem. and Cosmochem. 1975- |
| | Meteoritical Society (fellow) 1965- |
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Other Cosmochemists at UCLA |
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| | Frank Kyte
kyte@igpp.ucla.edu
http://www.ess.ucla.edu/faculty/kyte/ |
| | Kevin McKeegan
kdm@ess.ucla.edu
http://www.ess.ucla.edu/faculty/mckeegan/ |
| | Alan Rubin
aerubin@ucla.edu
http://www.ess.ucla.edu/researchers/rubin/ |
| | Paul Warren
pwarren@ucla.edu
http://www.ess.ucla.edu/researchers/warren/ |
| | Edward Young
eyoung@ess.ucla.edu
http://www.ess.ucla.edu/faculty/young/ |
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