1. Robert Miller Hazen was born on November 1,1948 and is an American mineralogist and astrobiologist.
24 Facts About Robert Hazen
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Robert Hazen is a research scientist at the Carnegie Institution of Washington's Geophysical Laboratory and Clarence Robinson Professor of Earth Science at George Mason University, in the United States.
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Robert Hazen was born in Rockville Centre, New York, on November 1,1948.
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Robert Hazen spent his early childhood in Cleveland, near a fossil quarry where he collected his first trilobite at the age of about 9.
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The Hazen family moved to New Jersey, where Robert's eight-grade teacher, Bill Welsh, observed Robert's interest in his collection of minerals.
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Robert Hazen started with the intention of going into chemical engineering, but he was captivated by the enthusiasm of David Wones and converted to mineralogy.
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In 1976, Robert Hazen joined the Carnegie Institution's Geophysical Laboratory as a research associate.
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Much of the work that Robert Hazen was doing could be classified as mineral physics, a cross between geophysics and mineralogy.
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Mao and Robert Hazen determined that the crystal structure of the superconducting phase was like that of perovskite, an important mineral in Earth's mantle.
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Subsequently, Robert Hazen's group identified twelve more high-temperature oxide superconductors, all with perovskite structures, and worked on organic superconductors.
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Robert Hazen investigated the possibility that organic molecules might acquire a chiral asymmetry when grown on the faces of mineral crystals.
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Robert Hazen worked on this question for a year with his closest colleague, geochemist Dimitri Sverjensky at Johns Hopkins University, and some other collaborators including a mineralogist, Robert Downs; a petrologist, John Ferry; and a geobiologist, Dominic Papineau.
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Robert Hazen used these as the basis for a 60-lecture video and audio course called The Joy of Science.
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Robert Hazen is a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.
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Robert Hazen served as Distinguished Lecturer and is a Past President of the Society.
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In 1986, Robert Hazen received the Ipatieff Prize, which the American Chemical Society awards in recognition of "outstanding chemical experimental work in the field of catalysis or high pressure".
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In 2019, Robert Hazen was named a Fellow of the American Geophysical Union.
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In 2021, Robert Hazen was awarded the Medal of Excellence in Mineralogical Sciences from the International Mineralogical Association.
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Robert Hazen is author of more than 350 articles and 20 books on science, history, and music.
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Robert Hazen has 289 refereed publications that have been cited a total of over 11,000 times, for an h-index of 58.
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Robert Hazen's wife, Margee, is a science writer and published historian.
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Robert Hazen's late father, Howard Brooke Hindle, PhD, was a historian who studied the role of material culture in the history of the United States and served as Director of the National Museum of American History from 1974 to 1978.
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Robert Hazen's late brother, Dan Chapin Robert Hazen, PhD, was an academic research librarian who had been affiliated with the libraries at Harvard, and was particularly recognized for his accomplishments to the Center for Research Libraries and advocacy of collections from Latin America.
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Harvard has memorialized Dan Robert Hazen by establishing two chairs in his name.