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Gustaf Arrhenius

Gustaf Arrhenius, Ph.D., University of Stockholm, 1953, served as a staff member of the Skagerak Expedition 1946 and the Swedish Deep Sea Expedition with the Albatross 1947-48, and joined Scripps Institution of Oceanography in 1952, where he is currently Professor of Oceanography. He was a Visiting Research Fellow at the California Institute of Technology 1952-56, at the International Institute of Meteorology, University of Stockholm 1956-57, and at Harvard University in 1965.

Dr. Arrhenius served on the NASA Lunar Sample Analysis Planning Team 1970-72, the NASA Advisory Committee on Comet and Asteroid Exploration 1973-75, and on the Ocean Science Board of the U.S. National Academy of Sciences 1977-81. His research has concerned ocean sedimentation, crystal chemistry of natural and synthetic solids, superconductivity, cosmochemistry, prebiotic chemistry and the earliest sedimentary record of life on Earth and Mars; he has published more than 150 papers and books in these fields.

Dr. Arrhenius was elected Guggenheim Fellow 1957-58, received the American Chemical Society PRF Award 1961, and the NASA Group Achievement Award 1973 and the Hans Pettersson Gold Medal of the Royal Swedish Academy in 1998. He is an elected fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the American Mineralogical Society and the Geological Society of India, and is a member of the International Academy of Astronautics, the Russian Akademiya Tvorchestva and of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, and the Royal Gothenburg Academy of Letters and Sceinces.
Selected References

  1. G. Arrhenius: 1997, Carbon dioxide warming of the early Earth. Ambio 26, 12-16.

  2. S.J. Mojzsis, R. Krishnamurthy, Arrhenius, G., 1998, After RNA and Before - Geophysical and Geochemical Constraints on Molecular Evolution. In The RNA World II. T. Cech, Ed. (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press, Cold Spring Harbor.

  3. S. Mojzsis and G. Arrhenius: 1998, Phosphates on Mars: exobiological implications. Origins Life Evol. Biosphere 28 (submitted).

  4. V. Kolb, S. Zhang, Y. Xu and G. Arrhenius: 1997, Mineral-induced phosphorylation of glycolate ion - a metaphor in chemical evolution. Orig. Life Evol. Biosphere27.

  5. Arrhenius, G., Baldridge, K.K., Richards- Gross, S., and Siegel, J., 1997. Glycolonitrile oligomerization: structure of oxazolines, potential heterocycles on early Earth. J. Org. Chem. 62, 5522-5525.

  6. G.Arrhenius, B. Sales, S. Mojzsis, T. Lee, 1997, Entropy and charge in molecular evolution - the case of phosphate J. theor. Biol. 187, 503-522.

  7. G. Arrhenius and S. Mojzsis: 1996, Life in the universe - then and now. Current Biology 6, 1213-1216.

  8. R. Krishnamurthy, S. Pitsch and G. Arrhenius: 1996, Mineral induced synthesis of ribose phosphates.Orig. Life Evol. Biosphere 26, 240-241.

  9. G. Arrhenius and B. C. Sales: 1996, Phosphate deposition in the presence and absence of cellular organisms. Orig. Life Evol. Biosphere 26, 114-115.

  10. S. Pitsch, R. Krishnamurthy, T. Lee, Y. Xu and G. Arrhenius: 1996, Surface active minerals in geochemical model reactions. Orig. Life Evol. Biosphere 26, 361-362.

  11. S. J. Mojzsis, G. Arrhenius, K. D. McKeegan, T. M. Harrison, A. P. Nutman and C. R. L. Friend: 1996, Evidence for life on Earth before 3800 million years ago. Nature 384, 55-59.

  12. P. S. Braterman, G. Arrhenius, S. Hui and W. Paplawsky: 1995, Preferential uptake of ammonium ions by zinc ferrocyanide. Orig. of Life Evol. Biosphere 25, 531-538.

  13. S. Pitsch, A. Eschenmoser, B. Gedulin, S. Hui and G. Arrhenius: 1995, Mineral induced formation of sugar phosphates. Orig. Life Evol. Biosphere 25, 294-334.

  14. T. Arrhenius, G. Arrhenius and W. J. Paplawsky: 1994, Archean geochemistry of formaldehyde and cyanide and the oligomerization of cyanohydrin. Orig. Life Evol. Biosphere 24, 1-19.

  15. B. Gedulin and G. Arrhenius: 1994, Sources and geochemical evolution of RNA precursor molecules; the role of phosphate. In Early Life on Earth, Nobel Symposium 84, ed. S. Bengtson. 91-110. New York: Columbia Univ. Press.

  16. K. Kuma, A. Usui, W. Paplawsky, B. Gedulin and G. Arrhenius: 1994, Crystal structures of synthetic 7Å and 10Å manganates substituted by mono- and divalent cations. Mineralog. Mag. 58, 423-445.

  17. G. Arrhenius, B. Gedulin and S. Mojzsis: 1993, Phosphate in models for chemical evolution. In Chem. Evolution and Origin of Life, ed. C. Ponnamperuma and J. Chela¥Flores. 25-50. A. Deepak Publ., Hampton, VA.

  18. G. Fan, S. Mojzsis and G. Arrhenius: 1993, Confocal study of microaggregates in 2.5 billion-year-old sediments. In Proc. 51st Ann. Mtg. Microscopy Society of America in San Francisco, CA, ed. by G. Bailey and C. Rieder, San Francisco Press.

  19. Arrhenius, G., and Arrhenius, S., 1988. Band structure of the solar system; an objective test of the grouping of planets and satellites. Astrophys. Space Science 144, 357-372.

  20. G. Arrhenius: 1987, The first 800 million years: environmental models for early Earth. Earth,Moon and Planets 37, 187-199.

  21. G. Arrhenius: 1984, Minerals with channel structure as substrates for nucleotide and peptide synthesis. In Fundamental Studies and the Future of Science, ed. C. Wickramasinghe. 301-319. Univ. College Cardiff Press, Cardiff, U.K.
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