Stein Jacobsen

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Stein Bjornar Jacobsen (born 1950) [1] is a Norwegian-American geochemist who works within cosmochemistry.

Hailing from Drammen, he finished a cand.mag. degree at the University of Oslo before studying geology in California with a Rotary grant. [2] Jacobsen became a professor of geochemistry at Harvard University. [3]

He was an inducted into the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters in 1994. [1] In 2009 he was inducted into the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, mainly for using "the distribution of long-lived and extinct radioisotopes to date the formation of the earth's core and to define the effects of core separation on the early history of the core-mantle-crust system". [4]

References

  1. 1 2 "Utenlandske medlemmer". Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters (in Norwegian). Archived from the original on 15 July 2007. Retrieved 28 November 2023.
  2. ↑ "Rotary-stipendium til Stein Bjørnar Jacobsen". Drammens Tidende og Buskeruds Blad (in Norwegian). 8 November 1974. p. 4.
  3. ↑ Faculty page, Harvard University
  4. ↑ "Stein Bjornar Jacobsen". American Academy of Arts and Sciences . Retrieved 28 November 2023.
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