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

[Marc Fries]

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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