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Eugene Merle Shoemaker (April 28, 1928 – July 18, 1997) was an American geologist. He co-discovered Comet Shoemaker–Levy 9 with his wife Carolyn S. Shoemaker and David H. Levy. This comet hit Jupiter in July 1994: the impact was televised around the world.
May 21, 2018 · Shoemaker, Eugene Merle (1928–97) An American geologist who founded the scientific study of impact cratering on Earth, the Moon, and on other solar system planets and their satellites, and who also pioneered the study of near-Earth comets and asteroids, often in collaboration with his wife Carolyn.
Jul 19, 1997 · Dr. Eugene Merle Shoemaker, who, with his wife, Carolyn, held a world record for the number of comets discovered, was killed yesterday in a car accident near Alice Springs, Australia. Mrs....
From 1962 to 1985, Shoemaker blended his astrogeology research for the USGS with teaching at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech). He chaired Caltech's Division of Geological and Planetary Sciences from 1969 to 1972.
Shoemaker earned his PhD in geology from Princeton (1960) while actively pursuing his fieldwork on craters. He was the founder of the study of planetary impact cratering on the Earth, Moon and planets.
Eugene Merle Shoemaker of Flagstaff, Ariz., distinguished astronomer and comet specialist, died July 18, 1987, in an automobile accident near Alice Springs, Australia. He was 69. His wife and close collaborator in astronomical research for decades suffered broken bones and was hospitalized.
American planetary geologist. In 1952 he began to study Meteor Crater in Arizona, and became convinced that it and other terrestrial and lunar craters—which many believed to be volcanic—were impact features, especially after his discovery of coesite at terrestrial craters.
Eugene "Gene" Shoemaker was a geologist and one of the founders of the field of planetary science. He is perhaps best known for co-discovering the Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 with his wife Carolyn Shoemaker and David Levy. Shoemaker studied the impact dynamics of Barringer Crater in Arizona for his Ph.D. at Princeton University, which he received in ...
Gene Shoemaker, renowned both as a geologist and an astronomer, and a member of the Board of Directors of The Spaceguard Foundation, was killed instantly on the afternoon of July 18, when his car collided head-on with another vehicle on an unpaved road in the Tanami Desert northwest of Alice Springs, in the Northern Territory of Australia.
Eugene Merle Shoemaker (April 28, 1928 – July 18, 1997) was an American geologist. He co-discovered Comet Shoemaker–Levy 9 with his wife Carolyn S. Shoemaker and David H. Levy. This comet hit Jupiter in July 1994: the impact was televised around the world.
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