Joseph Kirschvink
Commendation
for outstanding contributions in the fields of life science and earth science including: the discovery of bacterial magnetofossils; proposing and providing evidence for the snowball earth hypothesis; and for proposing hypotheses concerning the origin of life on Mars.
A list of five major papers
- Kirschvink, J.L. & Kopp, R.E. (2008) Paleoproterozoic icehouse and the evolution of oxygen mediating enzymes: the case for a late origin of photosyntheisis-II. Phil. Trans. Royal Soc. Lond., Ser. B. 363, 2755-2765, doi:10.1098/rstb.2008.0024.
- Ward, P.D., Garrison G., Botha J., Buick R., Erwin D.H., Kirschvink J.L., De Kock M.O., and R.Smith (2005) Abrupt and Gradual Extinction among Land Vertebrates in the Karoo Basin, South Africa. Science, v. 307, 709-714.
- Weiss B.P., Kirschvink J.L., Baudenbacher F.J., Vali H., Peters N.T., Macdonald F.A., and J.P.Wikswo. (2000) A Low Temperature Transfer of ALH84001 from Mars to Earth. Science, 290, 791-795.
- Weiss B.P., Kirschvink J.L., Baudenbacher F.J., Vali H., Peters N.T., Macdonald F.A., and J.P.Wikswo. (2000) A Low Temperature Transfer of ALH84001 from Mars to Earth. Science, 290, 791-795.
- Kirschvink, J.L., Kobayashi-Kirschvink, A., and Woodford, B.J. (1992) Magnetite biominrelization in the human brain. PNAS, 89(16): 7683-7687.
Nominator
Takeshi Kakegawa