Hap McSween
| Harry "Hap" Younger McSween Jr | |
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September 29, 1945 Charlotte, North Carolina |
| Fields | Meteoritics |
| Institutions | University of Tennessee at Knoxville |
| Alma mater | University of Georgia, Harvard |
| Thesis | Petrologic and chemical studies of the (C3) carbonaceous meteorites (1977) |
| Doctoral advisor | John A. Wood |
| Known for | Meteoritics |
| Notable awards | Leonard Medal, Leconte Medal, J. Lawrence Smith Medal, Whipple Award |
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Harry "Hap" Y. McSween is Chancellor's Professor Emeritus of Planetary Geoscience at the University of Tennessee at Knoxville. He has published papers and popular books about meteorites and planetary exploration, and textbooks on geochemistry and cosmochemistry.
Harry Y. McSween Jr. was born September 29, 1945 in Charlotte, North Carolina. After finishing school he attended Citadel College, where he graduated with a B.S. in chemistry in 1967. He then pursued an M.S. in geology at the University of Georgia, where he graduated in 1969. The title of his thesis was "Petrological and geochemical studies in the Coronaca area, Greenwood County, South Carolina". He then joined the Air Force where he was a pilot flying C-141 aircraft around the world.>
After his military service he went on to Harvard, where he became John A. Wood's first graduate student. It was here that Edward Stolper and he came up with the idea that some meteorites might originate from Mars. After graduating with a PhD in 1977, he joined the faculty of the University of Tennessee. He became involved with the Mars Pathfinder mission in 1997 as a member of the science team, then on the team for Mars Global Surveyor. Since then McSween has been a co-investigator on the Mars Odyssey, Mars Exploration Rovers and Dawn asteroid orbiter missions.
McSween has been the elected President of the Meteoritical Society, Chair of the Planetary Division of the Geological Society of America, and Councilor and President of the Geological Society of America. He has also served on numerous advisory committees for NASA and the National Research Council.
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