Andrew M. Davis
Professor and Chair
Department of Geophysical Sciences
The University of Chicago
United States of America
Biography
Education: Grinnell College, Grinnell, Iowa B. A. in Chemistry, May, 1971 Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, M. Phil. in Geochemistry, May, 1973 Ph. D. in Geochemistry, May, 1977 Honors: 1992 Fellow, Meteoritical Society 2002 Presented Nobel Lecture in Physics in Stockholm, on behalf of Raymond Davis, Jr. 2005 Rupert Wildt Lecturer, Yale University 2007 Asteroid 1981 ET8 renamed “6947 Andrewdavis” 2008 Mineral “davisite” (CaScAlSiO6) approved by International Mineralogical Association (Ma C. & Rossman G. R., 2009, Davisite, CaScAlSiO6, a new pyroxene from the Allende meteorite, Amer. Mineral. 94, 845–848) 2013 NASA Group Achievement Award (for work as part of Stardust Interstellar Preliminary Examination Team)
Research Interest
Isotope geochemistry, cosmochemistry, Planetary Sciences.
Publications
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Schwander, D., et al. "Formation of refractory metal nuggets and their link to the history of CAIs." Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta 168 (2015): 70-87.
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Stephan, Thomas, et al. "CHILI–the Chicago Instrument for Laser Ionization–a new tool for isotope measurements in cosmochemistry." International Journal of Mass Spectrometry (2016).
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Kööp, Levke, et al. "New constraints on the relationship between 26 Al and oxygen, calcium, and titanium isotopic variation in the early Solar System from a multielement isotopic study of spinel-hibonite inclusions." Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta 184 (2016): 151-172.
