H. Jay Melosh
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| Gender | Male |
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| Age | 78 |
| Date of birth | June 23,1947 |
| Zodiac sign | Cancer |
| Born | Paterson |
| New Jersey | |
| United States | |
| Field | Geophysics |
| Notable student | Elizabeth Turtle |
| Job | Physicist |
| Books | Planetary Surface Processes |
| Impact cratering | |
| Awards | Guggenheim Fellowship for Natural Sciences, US & Canada |
| Education | California Institute of Technology |
| Princeton University | |
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| ID | 1290310 |
H. Jay Melosh Life story
H. Jay Melosh was an American geophysicist specialising in impact cratering. He earned a degree in physics from Princeton University and a doctoral degree in physics and geology from Caltech in 1972. His PhD thesis concerned quarks.
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