Rainer Wieler
Scientist
Department of Earth Sciences
Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich
Switzerland
Biography
Rainer Wieler is a senior scientist emeritus at the Institute of Geochemistry and Petrology at the Department of Earth Sciences. In spring 2000 he was given the title of Profesor at ETH Zurich. Until his retirement in 2014 he led the laboratory of noble gas geochemistry and cosmochemistry. Since then he acts as a guest scientist. Born September 15, 1949 in Egg, canton Zurich, he studied physics at ETH Züich. After a one year stage in Guayaquil, Ecuador, he made his PhD thesis in noble gas cosmochemistry with Prof. P. Signer at the then Institute for Crystallography and Petrography at ETH Zurich. There he also spent his post-doc years and submitted in 1991 his habilitation thesis in planetary sciences. Since 1994 he is leading the noble gas laboratory, since 1999 together with Prof. A. N. Halliday. He is an associate editor of the journals Meteoritics and Planetary Science and Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta.
Research Interest
Solar system; Solar corpuscular radiatio
