[meteorite-list] Brian Mason - the passing of another of the greats

From: bill kies <parkforestmet_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Mon, 14 Dec 2009 22:52:37 -0600
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> Date: Mon, 14 Dec 2009 21:28:06 -0700
> From: meteoriteplaya at gmail.com
> To: meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com
> Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] Brain Mason - the passing of another of the greats
>
> Hey
> Check out the last sentence of the Washington Post article;
> http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/12/08/AR2009120804129.html
>
> In 2002, a writer for the online magazine Meteorite Times wrote about
> visiting Dr. Mason at the Smithsonian, reflecting on "the
> juxtaposition of Dr. Mason being pushed out of the way by kids running
> through the exhibit. He took it in stride, but it brought home to me
> both why he would avoid the cattle herds of the public sector, but
> also that it took decades of painstaking laboratory work, much of it
> by Dr. Mason himself, to reduce the intensely complex story
> well-hidden within meteorites into a set of digestible displays of
> which much of the educated public can consume within a few minutes . .
> . and kids can run through for fun."
>
> It is by Martin Horejsi
> http://www.meteorite-times.com/Back_Links/2002/May/Accretion_Desk.htm
>
>
> Mike
>
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>
> On Mon, Dec 14, 2009 at 9:19 PM, Mike Jensen <meteoriteplaya at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hi All
>> Here is a couple of somewhat better obituary's;
>> http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/12/08/AR2009120804129.html
>> http://www.royalsociety.org.nz/Site/about/our_structure/fellows/bmasonobituary.aspx
>>
>>
>> Mike
>>
>>
>> Mike Jensen Meteorites
>> 16730 E Ada PL
>> Aurora, CO 80017-3137
>> USA
>> 720-949-6220
>> IMCA 4264
>> website: www.jensenmeteorites.com
>>
>>
>> On Mon, Dec 14, 2009 at 7:47 PM, Jason Utas <meteoritekid at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> Hello All,
>>> I thought I should pass this forward.
>>> My father just informed me that Brian Mason's obituary appeared in
>>> today's copy of the LA times; he passed December 3rd of this year.
>>> He published countless publications and a number of well-received
>>> books over the past several decades and was a major contributor to the
>>> modern field of meteoritics. He'll most likely be best remembered for
>>> his book "Meteorites" published back in 1962, a work that's still
>>> often referenced today.
>>> An all too-short biography can be found here.
>>>
>>> http://www.teara.govt.nz/en/meteorites/2/5
>>>
>>> Best,
>>> Jason
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