[meteorite-list] A question for the scientists - Bunch, Rubin, others.

From: Marc Fries <fries_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Sat, 12 Jun 2010 16:53:54 -0700
Message-ID: <E18C894D-8A8D-40D8-9BF6-06143479915D_at_psi.edu>

About ten years ago I was minding my own business in the lab when a geologist friend of mine brought in a piece of Portales Valley. He asked me to collect some Raman spectra of some possible diamond in it. Until then I thought meteorites were some distant thing that you only saw behind glass at a museum. I was utterly hooked. (After I quit trying to throw him out of the lab because I thought he was pulling my leg!) I was still in grad school, finishing out my project on gas-phase deposition of diamond to improve medical implants. I already knew that there were a dozen others who would gladly take my place in industry and I had more or less decided that I wanted to tackle unsolved problems in natural systems instead.

So there ya have it. Now I dedicate most of my time to writing proposals and watching them get rejected. It's almost entertaining. ;-)

Cheers,
Marc Fries


On Jun 12, 2010, at 9:00 AM, Galactic Stone & Ironworks wrote:

> Hi Listees,
>
> I have a question for the scientists and meteoriticists on this List :
>
> At what point in your academic career did you decide to pursue
> meteoritics? Did you set out from the beginning to study meteorites,
> or did you move to meteoritics by some twist of fate or serendipity?
>
> I wish I had been "turned on" to meteorites earlier in my life, so I
> could have decided to pursue it as a career, and not as a hobby. But
> alas, this old dog is too old and poor to enter college again and
> pursue the science. So I am curious what led our experts to the field
> of meteorites.
>
> Best regards,
>
> MikeG
>
>
>
>
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