Английская Википедия:Christine Floss
Шаблон:Short description Шаблон:Use dmy dates Шаблон:Use list-defined references Christine Floss (1961–2018) was a German-born American cosmochemist whose research involved studying the atomic composition of meteorites, interplanetary dust, and moon rocks in order to understand the formation of the Solar System.Шаблон:R She was a research professor of physics at Washington University in St. Louis, affiliated with the university's Laboratory for Space Sciences and McDonnell Center for the Space Sciences.Шаблон:R
Early life and education
Floss was born in Munich, but moved to the US with her family as a child of five.Шаблон:R She majored in German at Purdue University, graduating in 1983,Шаблон:R but cast around in many directions for a career, eventually finding her life interest in a geology class she took to fulfil a general education requirement.Шаблон:R Floss earned a second bachelor's degree in geology from Indiana University, in 1987,Шаблон:R with a senior thesis on moon rocks advised by Abhijit Basu.Шаблон:R
She completed a Ph.D. in geochemistry at Washington University in St. Louis in 1991, under the supervision of Ghislaine Crozaz.Шаблон:R Her dissertation was Rare earth element and other trace element microdistributions in two unusual extraterrestrial igneous systems: The enstatite achondrite (aubrite) meteorites and the lunar ferroan anorthosites.Шаблон:R She entered the doctoral program already married, with two children; the marriage ended during her graduate studies.Шаблон:R Crozaz later wrote: "She was definitely one of our best students, and I wondered how she managed to complete her PhD in only four years while at the same time raising two young girls".Шаблон:R
Career and later life
She became a postdoctoral researcher at the Max Planck Institute for Nuclear Physics in Heidelberg, Germany,Шаблон:R "mostly for personal reasons": following her future husband, Frank Stadermann, a German researcher in the same specialty whom she had met when he was a visiting student at Washington University.Шаблон:R They married in 1993,Шаблон:R and had another child before returning together to Washington University in 1996.Шаблон:R Floss became a research scientist in the Laboratory for Space Sciences. Eventually she became a research professor.Шаблон:R
Her husband died at age 48, in 2010, of a cerebral hemorrhage.Шаблон:R She was found dead on April 19, 2018 of a heroin overdose.Шаблон:RШаблон:R At the time of her death, she was in the process of becoming a regular full professor at Washington University.Шаблон:R
Recognition
Asteroid 6689 Floss, discovered in 1981 by Schelte J. Bus, was named for Floss.Шаблон:R A special issue of the journal Meteoritics & Planetary Science was published in her memory in 2020.Шаблон:R A lunar crater was named after her in 2023.[1]
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