Stuart Weidenschilling

Dr. Weidenschilling attended the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he earned degrees in aeronautical engineering before receiving his PhD in Earth and Planetary Sciences in 1976. He was a postdoctoral fellow at the Carnegie Institution of Washington, Department of Terrestrial Magnetism, then joined the permanent science staff of PSI in 1978. He has served on the editorial board of Icarus and on numerous NASA proposal review panels. He is a member of the Division of Planetary Sciences and Division of Dynamical Astronomy of the American Astronomical Society, the American Geophysical Union, and the Meteoritical Society. He has authored or co-authored more than 90 publications in the refereed scientific literature, including many review chapters in books of the University of Arizona’s Space Science series. Dr. Weidenschilling retired in 2019.