Roger Everett Summons

Roger Everett Summons is Professor of Geobiology in the Department of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology[1] and a fellow of the Royal Society.[2] Summons is particularly known for the application of organic geochemical techniques to sediments of Precambrian age and modern microbes in order to increase our understanding of the early evolution of life on Earth.[3] Currently he is also engaged as a participating scientist with the search for organics in NASA’s Mars Science Laboratory mission. Outside academia Summons is an avid wine connoisseur and roots for the Boston Red Sox.

Roger Summons was born in Sydney, Australia, and received BSc (1968) and PhD (1972) degrees in Chemistry from the University of Wollongong.[4][5] Before joining MIT in 2001, he held appointments at Stanford, Australian Iron and Steel, the Australian National University and at Geoscience Australia.[6]

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References

  1. MIT-EAPS http://eaps-www.mit.edu/paoc/people/roger-summons Retrieved: June 5th 2013
  2. 1 2 List of Royal Society Fellows http://royalsociety.org/about-us/fellowship/fellows/ Retrieved: June 5th 2013
  3. 1 2 AAM Fellowship biography http://academy.asm.org/index.php/fellows-info/fellows-elected-in-2012/348-roger-summons Retrieved: June 5th 2013
  4. "Roger Summons - Alumni @ UOW". University of Wollongong.
  5. Formerly known as the Wollongong University College of UNSW, then part of the University of New South Wales before the University of Wollongong gained its autonomy in 1975.
  6. 1 2 Biographical entry: Encyclopedia of Australian Science http://www.eoas.info/biogs/P003695b.htm Retrieved: June 5th 2013
  7. List of fellows, Australian Academy of Science http://science.org.au/fellows/fellowship-list.html#S Retrieved: June 5th 2013
  8. Alfred Treibs award http://www.geochemsoc.org/awards/alfredtreibsaward/ Retrieved: June 5th 2013
  9. Bert Halpern lecturers http://www.uow.edu.au/content/groups/public/@web/@sci/@chem/documents/doc/uow019346.pdf Retrieved: June 5th 2013
  10. AGU Fellows http://sites.agu.org/honors/fellows/fellows-alpha-list/ Retrieved: June 5th 2013
  11. MARUM Press Release http://www.marum.de/en/Humboldt_Awardee_comes_to_Bremen.html Retrieved: June 5th 2013
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