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Lunar and Planetary Institute Science Staff Lunar and Planetary Institute Science Staff Since the founding of the Lunar Science Institute by President Johnson in 1968, the facilitation of science research has been a primary goal of what is now the Lunar and Planetary Institute. Listed by year of appointment, these staff scientists, visitors, and interns represent the Institute’s contribution to the expansion of the lunar and planetary knowledge and the evolving understanding of our solar system over the last 50 years. 1968 William Rubey Director 1969 F. Ken Aitken Postdoctoral Fellow Friedrich Horz Visiting Scientist Carolyn Leach Postdoctoral Fellow John Lindsay Postdoctoral Fellow Charles Meyer Postdoctoral Fellow Thornton Page Postdoctoral Fellow Arch Reid Postdoctoral Fellow Oliver Schaeffer Visiting Scientist S. Ross Taylor Visiting Scientist Harold Urey Visiting Scientist 1970 Jafar Arkani-Hamed Visiting Scientist David Criswell Visiting Scientist Wulf Gose Visiting Scientist Ki-iti Horai Visiting Scientist Ralph Morganstern Visiting Scientist John Oro Visiting Scientist G. William Pearce Graduate Fellow A. E. Ringwood Visiting Scientist Luciano Ronca Visiting Scientist James Rossiter Graduate Fellow Chi-yu Shih Graduate Fellow S. Fred Singer Visiting Scientist John Weete Visiting Scientist Ewen Whitaker Visiting Scientist 1971 Carlyle Beals Visiting Scientist Robert Brinkmann Staff Scientist Joseph Chamberlain Director David Criswell Staff Scientist Kurt Fredricksson Visiting Scientist Jeffrey Hanor Visiting Scientist Ching-Oh Ho Graduate Fellow Petr Jakes Visiting Scientist Jin Au Kong Visiting Scientist Zdenek Kopal Visiting Scientist John Lindsay Staff Scientist Charles Simonds Postdoctoral Fellow S. Fred Singer Visiting Scientist Shine-Soon Sun Graduate Fellow Harold Urey Visiting Scientist Raymond Watts Graduate Fellow John Weete Staff Scientist 1972 Stuart Agrell Visiting Scientist Jafar Arkani-Hamed Visiting Scientist Yuri Artemof Visiting Scientist Manuel Bass Visiting Scientist Giuseppe Cavarretta Visiting Scientist William Compston Visiting Scientist Colin Donaldson Graduate Fellow David Dunlop Visiting Scientist Geoffrey Eglinton Visiting Scientist John Freeman Visiting Scientist Renato Funiciello Visiting Scientist Bruno Giletti Visiting Scientist Wulf Gose Staff Scientist Jeffrey Hanor Visiting Scientist Jin Au Kong Visiting Scientist John Lindsay Visiting Scientist Robert Manka Postdoctoral Fellow Michael Moutsoulas Visiting Scientist Gerhard Neukum Visiting Scientist Colin Pillinger Postdoctoral Fellow Paul Ramdohr Visiting Scientist Donald Rehfuss Visiting Scientist Luciano Ronca Visiting Scientist S. Keith Runcorn Visiting Scientist Howard Sharpe Graduate Fellow Richard Shorthill Visiting Scientist Joseph Smyth Postdoctoral Fellow Adriano Taddeucci Visiting Scientist S. Ross Taylor Visiting Scientist Harold Urey Visiting Scientist Alexis Volborth Visiting Scientist Raymond Watts Postdoctoral Fellow 1973 Stuart Agrell Visiting Scientist Yuri Artemof Postdoctoral Fellow John Bastin Visiting Scientist Gordon Biggar Visiting Scientist Clarence Casella Visiting Scientist Joseph Chamberlain Visiting Scientist Jitendra Goswami Visiting Scientist James W. Head Interim Director Petr Jakes Visiting Scientist John Lindsay Visiting Scientist Russell Merrill Postdoctoral Fellow Barbara Middlehurst Visiting Scientist G. William Pearce Visiting Scientist Donald Rehfuss Visiting Scientist Ian Ridley Staff Scientist Eberhard Schneider Visiting Scientist Charles Simonds Staff Scientist David Strangway Interim Director S. Ross Taylor Visiting Scientist 1974 P. J. Adams Visiting Scientist Raymond Arvidson Visiting Scientist N. Bhandari Visiting Scientist Charles Bickel Visiting Scientist Donald Brownlee Visiting Scientist N. K. Coch Visiting Scientist Ann Coppin Graduate Fellow D. Eppler Graduate Fellow Ronald Fryxell Postdoctoral Fellow Rex Gibbons Visiting Scientist Bruno Giletti Visiting Scientist Philip Goodell Visiting Scientist Jack Hartung Visiting Scientist C. M. Hohenberg Visiting Scientist Wing-Huen Ip Postdoctoral Fellow Bor-ming Jahn Postdoctoral Fellow Kenneth W. Landon Visiting Scientist John Lindsay Visiting Scientist Rolf Meissner Visiting Scientist Russell Merrill Staff Scientist Michael Moutsoulas Visiting Scientist Hiroshi Nagasawa Visiting Scientist John J. Naughton Visiting Scientist G. William Pearce Visiting Scientist Robert Pepin Director F. Podosek Visiting Scientist Eberhard Schneider Visiting Scientist W. F. Slawson Visiting Scientist Joseph Smyth Visiting Scientist Leonard Srnka Postdoctoral Fellow David Strangway Visiting Scientist G. Jeffrey Taylor Visiting Scientist James Taylor Visiting Scientist S. Ross Taylor Visiting Scientist Ernst Zinner Visiting Scientist 1975 George Blanford Postdoctoral Fellow Mark Cintala Postdoctoral Fellow Nicholas Coch Visiting Scientist George Comstock Visiting Scientist Henry Cooper Visiting Scientist John Delano Graduate Fellow Michael Dence Visiting Scientist John Drake Visiting Scientist Nancy Eichenberger Graduate Fellow Ron Gooley Visiting Scientist John Green Visiting Scientist Jack Hartung Visiting Scientist Hans Jarosch Visiting Scientist Susan Kesson Visiting Scientist Roy Lewis Visiting Scientist John Lindsay Visiting Scientist J. Douglas MacDougall Visiting Scientist Dean Malouta Graduate Fellow Michael Moutsoulas Visiting Scientist Douglas Phinney Visiting Scientist Robert Reedy Visiting Scientist A. E. Ringwood Visiting Scientist Rand Schaal Graduate Fellow Sean Solomon Visiting Scientist Leonard Srnka Staff Scientist Ian M. Steele Visiting Scientist G. Jeffrey Taylor Visiting Scientist S. Ross Taylor Visiting Scientist Gene Ulmer Visiting Scientist Thomas Usselman Postdoctoral Fellow Joachim Voss Graduate Fellow John Wood Visiting Scientist 1976 S. K. Addy Visiting Scientist Gary Aden Graduate Fellow Darius Adib Visiting Scientist Jagannadham Akella Visiting Scientist Richard Arculus Visiting Scientist A. E. Bence Visiting Scientist S. K. Bhattacharya Visiting Scientist J. M. Bird Visiting Scientist A. L. Boettcher Visiting Scientist Joseph Chernosky Visiting Scientist Bibhas De Visiting Scientist Colin Donaldson Visiting Scientist Robert Doyle Visiting Scientist Samuel Ferguson Graduate Fellow Richard Grieve Visiting Scientist A. G. Herrmann Visiting Scientist Wing-Huen Ip Visiting Scientist Anthony Irving Visiting Scientist Petr Jakes Visiting Scientist Susan Kesson Visiting Scientist David Kohlstedt Visiting Scientist David Krinsley Visiting Scientist Garth H. Ladle Visiting Scientist John Lindsay Visiting Scientist Ellen Lofgren Research Associate Allan Ludman Visiting Scientist C. John Mann Visiting Scientist Ted Maxwell Graduate Fellow Marjorie McCorquodale Research Associate Kurt Molenaar Graduate Fellow Stephen Norton Visiting Scientist Carle Pieters Visiting Scientist Arch Reid Visiting Scientist A. E. Ringwood Visiting Scientist Rand Schaal Graduate Fellow Peter Schultz Staff Scientist Klaus Schultz Graduate Fellow Michael Sheridan Visiting Scientist Hiroshi Takeda Visiting Scientist S. Ross Taylor Visiting Scientist Luigia Tolomeo Visiting Scientist Ray Weldon, II Graduate Fellow Ken Wohletz Graduate Fellow Lawrence Wolken Visiting Scientist Danuta Woloszyn Graduate Fellow Mark Woods Graduate Fellow 1977 Erik Aaboe LPI Intern Abhijit Basu Visiting Scientist J. A. Burns Visiting Scientist Ann Cochran LPI Intern Carolyn Conley Graduate Fellow B. G. Despande Visiting Scientist Michael Dungan Visiting Scientist Susan Dust Visiting Scientist D. Eppler Visiting Scientist Thomas Erstfeld Postdoctoral Fellow Mary Ann Ferrante LPI Intern Karen J. Franczyk LPI Intern David Freeman LPI Intern Donald Gault Visiting Scientist Rossman Geise Visiting Scientist John Green Visiting Scientist Robert Hanss Visiting Scientist John Harvey LPI Intern John Harvey Undergraduate Fellow Emilie Hauser Graduate Fellow Dieter Heymann Visiting Scientist Jerry Hoffer Visiting Scientist Robert Hutchinson Visiting Scientist Hans Jarosch Visiting Scientist Robert Kay Visiting Scientist Frieda L. Malcolm Graduate Fellow Takafumi Matsui Postdoctoral Fellow Thomas McGetchin Director M. Menzies Postdoctoral Fellow Michael Moutsoulas Visiting Scientist Peter Nabelek LPI Intern Robert C. Newton Visiting Scientist Dag Nummedal Visiting Scientist Yoshikazu Ohashi Visiting Scientist Dennis Orphal Visiting Scientist Lee Parker Visiting Scientist Michael Pelizzari Postdoctoral Fellow Robert Pepin Visiting Scientist Elisabeth Poland LPI Intern Arch Reid Visiting Scientist Frederick Schultz LPI Intern Klaus Schultz Graduate Fellow Kenneth Schwartz Graduate Fellow John (Jack) R. Sevier Associate Director Donald Singleton LPI Intern I. E. Smith Visiting Scientist Sigurdur Steinthorsson Visiting Scientist Richard Strelitz Postdoctoral Fellow Hiroshi Takeda Visiting Scientist Joseph Vance Visiting Scientist Joachim Voss Graduate Fellow Robert Waldron Visiting Scientist E. C. Whipple Visiting Scientist 1978 Charles Almy Visiting Scientist Douglas Anderson Postdoctoral Fellow Lewis Ashwal Postdoctoral Fellow Victor Baillargeon LPI Intern Leo A. Barnard Visiting Scientist Jean Bernard-Griffiths Visiting Scientist Peter Black Visiting Scientist Steven Bohlen Graduate Fellow Jon B. Bryan Visiting Scientist Giles Bussod LPI Intern Gilles Bussod Graduate Fellow Odile Calame Visiting Scientist John R. Carruthers Visiting Scientist Clarence Casella Visiting Scientist Bob Cervenka Graduate Fellow Gary Clow LPI Intern James Conca LPI Intern John Delaney Visiting Scientist A. J. Dessler Visiting Scientist Roher Floran Visiting Scientist
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