[IGPP Everyone] [EPSS Everyone] EPSS Professor Kevin McKeegan awarded Smith Medal of the US National Academy of Sciences

[ALAN RUBIN]

Congratulations to Kevin!!!  It is a great and well-deserved honor.
Alan

On Wed, Jan 17, 2018 at 3:44 PM, Jean-Luc Margot <jlm at epss.ucla.edu> wrote:

> Dear All,
>
> I am pleased to announce that EPSS *Prof. Kevin McKeegan *has been named
> recipient of the *2018 J. Lawrence Smith Medal* of the US National
> Academy of Sciences.  The medal recognizes "recent original and meritorious
> investigation of meteoric bodies."  The NAS citation
> <http://www.nasonline.org/programs/awards/2018/McKeegan.html> is
> reproduced below.  Congratulations, Kevin!
>
> jlm
>
> Kevin D. McKeegan, University of California, Los Angeles, will receive the
> 2018 *J. Lawrence Smith Medal*
> <http://www.nasonline.org/programs/awards/j-lawrence-smith-medal.html>.
>
> McKeegan is a world-recognized leader in the application of
> micro-analytical techniques to study meteoritic materials — incredibly
> precise research which has improved our understanding of the processes and
> chronology of the early solar system.
>
> Among his accomplishments, McKeegan’s team discovered that the oxygen
> isotopic composition of the Sun is about 5 percent different from that of
> all rocky solar system bodies previously sampled, including the Earth, the
> Moon, Mars, and asteroidal parent bodies of meteorites. McKeegan and his
> colleagues accomplished this major discovery by analyzing samples from the
> Genesis space-probe mission, which collected particles from the solar wind.
> The task — the highest priority research goal of the Genesis mission —
> required the development of a new type of hybrid instrument, the MegaSIMS,
> which combined a secondary ion mass spectrometer with an accelerator mass
> spectrometer. The work built upon McKeegan’s earlier development of
> reliable methods for measuring isotope abundances in refractory phases of
> meteorites and in microscopic interplanetary dust particles using an ion
> probe.
>
> McKeegan also led the Isotopes Team of the Preliminary Science
> Investigation of the Stardust mission that analyzed dust particles captured
> by flying through the tail of comet Wild2.
>
>
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Alan Rubin
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