Susan Kieffer

Susan Elizabeth Werner Kieffer (born November 17, 1942 in Warren, Pennsylvania) is an American physical geologist and planetary scientist. Kieffer is known for her work on the fluid dynamics of volcanoes, geysers, and rivers, and for her model of the thermodynamic properties of complex minerals. She has also contributed to the scientific understanding of meteorite impacts.

Kieffer is currently a Professor of Geology and a Professor of Physics at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign,^[1] where she holds a Charles R. Walgreen, Jr. Chair. She is also a member of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States,^[2] a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences,^[3] and a 1995 MacArthur Fellow.^[4]

Publications

• Zirin, H. and Werner (Kieffer), S., Detailed analysis of flares, magnetic fields and activity in the sunspot group of September 13–26, 1963, Solar Physics, 1, 66–100, 1967.

• Kieffer, S. W., I. Shock Metamorphism of the Coconino Sandstone at Meteor Crater, Arizona: II. The Specific Heat of Solids of Geophysical Interest, Ph.D. Thesis, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California, 1970.

• Kieffer, S. W., Introduction to the translation of Russian article by L. Firsov, “Concerning the meteoritic origin of the Puchezh-Katunki Crater,” Meteoritics, 8, 223–244, 1973.

• Shoemaker, E. M. and Kieffer, S. W., Guidebook to the Geology of Meteor Crater, Arizona, printed by the Meteoritical Society and the U.S. Geological Survey for the 37th Annual Meeting of the Meteoritical Society, August, 1974.

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