Sean Solomon
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| Born | Sean Carl Solomon October 24, 1945 Los Angeles, California |
| Nationality | United States |
| Fields |
Planetary science Geophysics |
| Institutions |
Columbia University Carnegie Institution |
| Alma mater |
California Institute of Technology Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
| Doctoral advisor | M. Nafi Toksöz |
| Known for | Science lead for MESSENGER and director of the Department of Terrestrial Magnetism at the Carnegie Institution for Science |
| Notable awards | G. K. Gilbert Award, Arthur L. Day Prize and Lectureship, National Medal of Science (2012) |
Sean Carl Solomon (born 1945) is the director of the Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory of Columbia University, where he is also the William B. Ransford Professor of Earth and Planetary Science. Before moving to Columbia in 2012, he was the director of the Department of Terrestrial Magnetism at the Carnegie Institute in Washington, D.C. His research area is in geophysics, including 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).
Solomon was born in Los Angeles, California on October 24, 1945.
Solomon received his B.S. from the California Institute of Technology, and his Ph.D. in geophysics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in 1971.
From 1972 through 1992 he was an assistant, associate, and full professor at MIT. For the next 20 years he was Director of the Department of Terrestrial Magnetism of the Carnegie Institution of Washington. He assumed his current positions at Columbia in 2012. Solomon has served as Principal Investigator for the Carnegie Institute's part of the NASA Astrobiology Institute (NAI) and member of the Earth Institute External Advisory Board at Columbia University. He has been a member of the Magellan Project Science Team, Radar Investigation Group and the Mars Orbiter Laser Altimeter Team. He has been on numerous oceanographic expeditions. Solomon continues to serve on committees.
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