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Sean C. Solomon

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American planetary scientist

United StatesAcademicsBorn 1945 · age 80
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Sean Carl Solomon is an American geophysicist and planetary scientist who is currently a Doherty Senior Scholar at the Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory of Columbia University, where he was also director and the William B. Ransford Professor of Earth and Planetary Science from 2012 to 2020. C.

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2012National Medal of Science
2005Harry H. Hess Medal
1999Arthur L. Day Prize and Lectureship
1999G. K. Gilbert Award
Guggenheim Fellowship

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Sean Carl Solomon is an American geophysicist and planetary scientist who is currently a Doherty Senior Scholar at the Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory of Columbia University, where he was also director and the William B. Ransford Professor of Earth and Planetary Science from 2012 to 2020. Before moving to Columbia in 2012, he was the director of the Department of Terrestrial Magnetism at the Carnegie Institution in Washington, D.C. His research area is in the fields of planetary geology, seismology, marine geophysics, and geodynamics. Solomon is the principal investigator on the NASA MESSENGER mission to Mercury. He is also a team member on the Gravity Recovery and Interior Laboratory mission and the Plume-Lithosphere Undersea Melt Experiment (PLUME).

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Born 1945 · age 80
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