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LUGMAIR, GUENTER

Research Geochemist

Degrees:

• Ph.D., University of Vienna, Austria

Research Interests:

• Origin and evolution of the solar system
• Isotope Geo- and Cosmochemistry
• Early solar system timescales using extinct radionuclides
• Isotope tracer studies on terrestrial and extraterrestrial materials
• Nucleosynthesis

Honors and Awards:

• Fellow, Meteoritical Society, 1980; NASA Group Achievement Award-Planetary Materials Curation Team, 1983; George P. Merrill Award, NAS, 1987; Member of the Max-Planck-Society, 1996; Fellow, American Geochemical Society, 1997; Member of the ‘Academia Europea’, 2000; Fellow, American Geophysical Union, 2000; Leonard Medal of the Meteoritical Society, 2000; Goldschmidt Medal of the Geochemical Society, 2007;

1993. Live iron-60 in the early solar system. Science: 259:1138-1142.

1998. Early Solar System Timescales according to 53Mn - 53Cr Systematics. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta: 62: 2863-2886.

1998: Chromium Isotopic Evidence for the Cretateous-Tertiary Impactor and its Type. Science: 282: 927-929.

2000: Timescales of Planetesimal Formation and Differentiation based on Extinct Radioisotopes. In Origin of the Earth and Moon, Univ. of Arizona Press, Tucson: 25-44.

2001: Early Solar System Events and Time Scales. Meteoritics & Planet. Sci.: 36: 1017-1026.

2003: Chronology of Asteroid Accretion and Differentiation. In Asteroids III, The University of Arizona Press, Tucson: 687-695.

2003: Evidence for live 60Fe in meteorites. New Astronomy Reviews: 48: 155-159.

2004: Chemistry of Rocks and Soils in Gusev Crater from the Alpha Particle X-ray Spectrometer. Science: 305: 829-832.

2005: 60Fe: A heat source for planetary differentiation from a nearby supernova explosion. The Astrophysical Journal: 625:271–277.

2006: Manganese–chromium isotope systematics of carbonaceous chondrites. Earth and Planetary Science Letters: 250:200–213.