Robert Hazen

Who is Robert Hazen?

Robert Hazen is an American mineralogist and astrobiologist. He is a research scientist at the Carnegie Institution of Washington's Geophysical Laboratory and Clarence Robinson Professor of Earth Science at George Mason University, in the United States.

Hazen received a B.S. and M.S. in Earth Science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology 1971, and a Ph.D. at Harvard University in Mineralogy & Crystallography 1975. After studies as NATO Postdoctoral Fellow at Cambridge University in England, he joined the Carnegie Institution’s research effort.

Hazen is author of more than 350 articles and 20 books on science, history, and music. A Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, he has received the Mineralogical Society of America Award, the American Chemical Society Ipatieff Prize, the ASCAP Deems Taylor Award, the Educational Press Association Award, the Elizabeth Wood Science Writing Award, and the Distinguished Public Service Medal of the Mineralogical Society of America. He has presented numerous named lectures at universities, and is currently Sigma Xi Distinguished Lecturer.