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THE AUTHORS

	CHAPTER ONE

 

Gordon Brown completed his Ph.D. degree in 1970 at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, where he focused on X-ray crystallographic studies of olivines and chemical bonding in framework silicates. Following a year-long post-doctoral position at SUNY Stony Brook, where he developed high-temperature single-crystal X-ray diffraction methods, carried out crystallographic studies of returned Lunar samples from the Apollo missions, and studied Al/Si order-disorder in feldspars using neutron diffraction methods, he became an Assistant Professor of Geological & Geophysical Sciences at Princeton University. In 1973, he moved to Stanford University, where he is now the D.W. Kirby Professor of Earth Sciences and Professor and Chair of the Stanford Synchrotron Radiation Laboratory Faculty. Brown carried out one of the first X-ray absorption spectroscopy studies of earth materials (Fe-bearing minerals and silicate glasses) at the Stanford Synchrotron Radiation Project in 1977, and has been an active user of the intense X-rays from synchrotrons for the past 25 years. While at Stanford, Brown’s research focus has been on the structure and properties of silicate glasses and melts, the response of mineral structures to high temperature, and most recently the environmental chemistry of metal and metalloid ions at mineral/water interfaces. When not teaching, working with his students and post-docs on various research projects, or working on chapters for RiMG volumes, he enjoys fly fishing, taking hikes with his Jack Russell Terrier Timmy (see photo), and horseback riding with his wife Nancy and his Appaloosa named Jenny.

Neil C. Sturchio received his PhD in Earth and Planetary Sciences from Washington University in 1983, for studying the petrology and geochemistry of metamorphic rocks in the Eastern Desert of Egypt. After a two-year postdoc, he joined the staff at Argonne National Laboratory for 15 years to pursue studies of trace element and isotopic behavior in rock-water systems, leading . . . [Full Text of this Article]