Ross John Angel
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Ross John Angel (born October 26, 1959) is an internationally recognized researcher in mineralogy, expert in crystallography and elastic properties of geological materials and key industrial materials, which he studies with experimental and analytical approaches. He is the lead author or co-author of over 240 articles in international scientific journals, he received the Dana Medal from the Mineralogical Society of America in 2011[1] and is currently a director of research at the Institute of Geosciences and Geo-resources [2] of the National Research Council (Italy).
Education
Ross John Angel was educated at the
Career
Ross John Angel won a NATO Overseas Research Fellowship and joined Prof. Charles Prewitt's group at the Stony Brook University in 1985 to develop new analysis methods to determine the crystal structures of incommensurate minerals. When Charlie Prewitt was appointed director of the Geophysical Laboratory of the Carnegie Institution of Washington, now known as Carnegie Institution for Science, Ross Angel moved with him. At the Geophysical Laboratory staff members Robert Hazen and Larry Finger trained him in high-pressure crystallography. Ross was part of the team that determined the crystal structures of the first high-temperature super-conductors in 1987,[3][4]
In 1988 Ross Angel won a 1983 University Research Fellowship from the
In 2011 Ross John Angel held a Mercator Professorship of the
Current research
Ross John Angel has developed and established novel methods for single-crystal diffraction,[11][12][13] at extreme conditions in order to characterize and understand the fundamental relationships between the atomic-scale structures and properties of materials. The software that he has developed for controlling single-crystal X-ray diffractometers,[14] and processing of data[15] is distributed as freeware[16] and is in use by many research groups world-wide. With colleagues [17] he is developing elasticity theory and methods to measure the stress and strain of inclusions inside host minerals in order to determine the pressures and temperatures at which they were trapped deep inside the Earth.
Honors
Ross John Angel has been the recipient of major honors at both national and international levels.
United-Kingdom: Ross John Angel has received the Phillips Crystallography Award of the British Crystallographic Association in 1991 [18] and in 1993 the first Max Hey Award of the Mineralogical Society of Great Britain and Ireland.[19]
International: Ross John Angel has been a fellow of the Mineralogical Society of America since 1991. He received the Medal for Research Excellence of the European Mineralogical Union (1998).[20] More recently, he received the Dana Medal from the Mineralogical Society of America in 2011 [1]
Ross John Angel is also involved in the mineralogy community by serving as:
- Councilor of the International Mineralogical Association (IMA) (2021–present)[21]
- Technical editor for crystal structures, American Mineralogist (2013-2021)
- Member of the Editorial Advisory board of Physics and Chemistry of Minerals (2020–present)[22]
- Member of the Editorial Advisory board of Zeitschrift für Kristallographie – Crystalline Materials (2013–present)[23]
- Councilor of the Mineralogical Society of America (2005-2007)
- Associate editor of the European Journal of Mineralogy[24][25][26]
Publications
Selected notable scientific publications in international journals.
- Angel RJ, Chopelas A, Ross NL (1992) Stability of high-density clinoenstatite at upper-mantle pressures. Nature 358:322-324.[27]
- Angel RJ, Allan DR, Miletich R, Finger LW (1997) The use of quartz as an internal pressure standard in high-pressure crystallography. Journal of Applied Crystallography 30:461-466.[11]
- Angel RJ (2000) Equations of state. In RM Hazen and RT Downs (eds.), High-pressure and high-temperature crystal chemistry. Reviews in Mineralogy and Geochemistry, 41:35-60.[12]
- Angel RJ, Bujak M, Zhao J, Gatta GD, Jacobsen SD (2007) Effective hydrostatic limits of pressure media for high-pressure crystallographic studies. Journal of Applied Crystallography 40:26-32.[28]
- Angel RJ, Gonzalez-Platas J, Alvaro M (2014) EosFit-7c and a Fortran module (library) for equation of state calculations. Zeitschrift für Kristallographie, 229, 405–419.[29]
References
- ^ a b "Mineralogical Society of America - Dana Medal". www.minsocam.org.
- ^ a b "Istituto di Geoscienze e Georisorse - CNR". www.igg.cnr.it.
- ^ Hazen, Robert M. (1988) The breakthrough: the race for the superconductor. New York: Summit Books. ISBN 978-0671658298.
- ^ Hazen RM, Finger LW, Angel RJ, Prewitt CT, Ross NL, Mao HK, Hadidiacos CG, Hor PH, Meng RL, Chu CW (1987) Crystallographic description of phases in the Y-Ba-Cu-O superconductor. Physical Review B 35:7238-7241. https://journals.aps.org/prb/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevB.35.7238
- ^ "Bayerisches Geoinstitut - Home". www.bgi-neu.uni-bayreuth.de.
- ^ "Crystallographer selected to receive Dana Medal". vtx.vt.edu.
- ^ "Welcome to the Crystallography Laboratory at Virginia Tech". mill2.chem.ucl.ac.uk.
- ^ "Crystallography". chem.vt.edu.
- ^ Malcherek, Thomas. "About us". www.geo.uni-hamburg.de.
- ^ "Home page del Dipartimento - Dipartimento di Scienza della terra e dell'ambiente". sciter.unipv.eu.
- ^ – via scripts.iucr.org.
- ^ a b "Mineralogical Society of America - High-Temperature and High Pressure Crystal Chemistry". www.minsocam.org.
- – via scripts.iucr.org.
- – via scripts.iucr.org.
- S2CID 56434995.
- ^ "Home". rossangel.net.
- ^ "Homepage". Mineralogy lab.
- ^ "Prizes - PCGSCMP". www.pcg-scmp.org.
- ^ "Max Hey medal". Mineralogical Society.
- ^ "EMU Research Excellence Medal | Official website of the European Mineralogical Union".
- ^ "Directory". ima.univie.ac.at. December 9, 2010.
- ^ "Physics and Chemistry of Minerals". Springer.
- ^ "Zeitschrift für Kristallographie - Crystalline Materials". De Gruyter.
- ^ "EJM - Home". www.european-journal-of-mineralogy.net.
- doi:10.1127/ejm/6/1/0005 – via www.schweizerbart.de.)
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- S2CID 4348699– via www.nature.com.
- ^ "Journal of Applied Crystallography Volume 40, Part 1, February 2007". journals.iucr.org. August 14, 2015.
- S2CID 56434995– via www.degruyter.com.
External links
- Ross John Angel publications indexed by Google Scholar
- Official website