Hatten Yoder

Hatten Schuyler Yoder ( born March 20, 1921 in Cleveland, Ohio; † August 2, 2003 in Bethesda, Maryland ) was a geophysicist and petrologist, the pioneering work in the field of high-temperature and high -pressure minerals in the Earth's Structure made ​​. He was the fourth director of the Geophysical Department of the Carnegie Institution of Washington.

Life

Had graduated from Lakewood High School in Cleveland, Ohio. He then joined the U.S. Navy and served a total of 16 years. He studied in the meantime at the University of Chicago, where he in 1941 his B.Sc. took off. During World War II he was 1942-1946 meteorologist for the Navy in the Pacific and in Europe. Before the planned Allied invasion of Japan, he worked in Siberia in a team of Russian and American scientists who was involved in the planning of a network of weather stations, which should enable a reliable weather forecast.

In 1948 he laid the exam for Ph.D. at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology from, and began in the same year as Experimentalpetrologe in the geophysical laboratory of the institution. In 1971 he was appointed as the fourth director of the laboratory, he held this position until 1986. 1986 he became Professor Emeritus. He died on August 2, 2003 in Bethesda, Maryland, from the effects of surgery.

Work

1961 and 1962 he published with Cecil E. Tilley contributions to the transition from basalt to eclogite with increasing depth in the mantle and the origin of basaltic magma. In 1976 he published his textbook The Generation of Basaltic Magma, which established him as one of the leading experts in this field. Throughout his scientific career, Yoder dealt with thematically different areas, such as the physical chemistry of silicates and sulfides, the rock-forming minerals grossular, analcime, phlogopite, muscovite and ternary feldspars or the abiotic synthesis of organic compounds. However, the investigation of basalt formed the focus of his research.

Awards and Honors

• Member of the National Academy of Sciences, 1958
• President of the Mineralogical Society of America, the American Geophysical Union and the History of Earth Sciences Society
• Columbia University Bicentennial Medal
• Arthur L. Day Medal of the Geological Society of America, 1962
• Arthur L. Day Prize and Lectureship, National Academy of Sciences
• Abraham Gottlob Werner Medal of the German Mineralogical Society
• History of Geology Award of the Geological Society of America
• Wollaston Medal of the Geological Society of London, 1979
• Roebling Medal of the Mineralogical Society of America, 1992.
• Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences

According to Yoder, the mineral Yoderit was named in 1959.

Works

• Outline the transition of basalt to eclogite. 1961 ( with Cecil E. Tilley ).
• Origin of basalt magma: an experimental study of natural and synthetic rock systems. In: Journal of Petrology. 3, 1962, pp. 342-532 ( with Cecil E. Tilley ).
• The Generation of Basaltic Magma. National Academy of Sciences, Washington, D.C. In 1976.
• Centennial History of the Carnegie Institution of Washington. Volume III, The Geophysical Laboratory, Cambridge University Press, 2004, ISBN 052183080X.
• The Planned Invasion of Japan (1945 ): The Siberian Weather Advantage. In 1997.