Gerald
Schubert
Born and raised in New York, Professor Gerald Schubert attended
Cornell University where he obtained Bachelor of Engineering
Physics and Master of Aeronautical Engineering degrees in 1961.
He served in the U.S. Navy at the Nuclear Power School in Vallejo,
California and at the same time studied for a Ph.D. in Aeronautical
Sciences at U.C. Berkeley. He completed his naval service as
a Lieutenant and armed with the Ph.D. left California in 1965
for a postdoctoral year at the Department of Applied Mathematics
and Theoretical Physics, Cambridge University, England. He returned
to California a year later for a faculty position at UCLA. He
is currently Distinguished Professor of Geophysics and Planetary
Physics in the Department of Earth and Space Sciences and the
Institute of Geophysics and Planetary Physics at UCLA. He has
participated in space missions to the Moon (Apollo), Venus (Pioneer
Venus and Magellan), and the Jupiter System (Galileo) as an interdisciplinary
scientist and experiment co-investigator. He has authored and
co-authored over 460 papers and 2 books (Geodynamics, Mantle
Convection in the Earth and Planets) and has had editorial responsibilities
for 10 journals. His research deals broadly with the origin,
evolution, and present states of the planets and moons of the
solar system, including the Earth and the Moon. Professor Schubert
is a member of the National Academy of Sciences and a Fellow
of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He has received
the Harry Hess Medal and the James B. MacElwane Award of the
American Geophysical Union and served as President of the Union's
Planetary Sciences Section. |
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