Gerald J. Wasserburg
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Gerald J. Wasserburgh (born 1927) is an American geologist. He is a Professor of Geology and Geophysics at the California Institute of Technology.
Wasserburgh completed his Ph.D. from the University of Chicago. He joined the faculty at Caltech in 1959.
Research of Wasserburg has led to a better understanding of the origins and history of the solar system and its component bodies. His research established a time scale for the development of the early solar system including the end of the process of nucleosyntheses and the formation of solid objects such as the planets, the moons, and the meteorites.
Along with Claude Allègre, Wasserburgh won the Crafoord Prize in Geosciences in 1986.
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- Gerald J. Wasserburg. The California Institute of Technology. Retrieved on 2008-05-24.
- Profile of Gerald J. Wasserburg. The California Institute of Technology. Retrieved on 2008-05-24.
- The Crafoord Prize 1986. Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences. Retrieved on 2008-05-24.
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