Stein Jacobsen Explained

Stein Bjornar Jacobsen (born 1950) is a Norwegian-American geochemist who works within cosmochemistry.

Hailing from Drammen, he finished a cand.mag. degree at the University of Oslo before studying geology in California with a Rotary grant.^[1] Jacobsen became a professor of geochemistry at Harvard University.^[2]

He was an inducted into the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters in 1994.^[3] In 2009 he was inducted into the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, mainly for using "the distribution of long-lived and extinct radioisotopes to date the formation of the earth's core and to define the effects of core separation on the early history of the core-mantle-crust system".^[4]

Notes and References

1. News: Drammens Tidende og Buskeruds Blad. 8 November 1974. Rotary-stipendium til Stein Bjørnar Jacobsen. 4. no.
2. https://eps.harvard.edu/people/stein-b-jacobsen Faculty page
3. Web site: Utenlandske medlemmer. dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20070715102608/http://www.dnva.no/c26849/artikkel/vis.html?tid=26861. 15 July 2007. 28 November 2023. Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters. no.
4. Web site: Stein Bjornar Jacobsen. American Academy of Arts and Sciences. 28 November 2023.