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