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Laurence A. "Larry" Soderblom
Born1944
Alma materNew Mexico Tech, Caltech
AwardsWhipple Award, G.K. Gilbert Award
Scientific career
FieldsPlanetary Science
InstitutionsUSGS
ThesisThe distribution and ages of regional lithologies in the lunar maria (1970)
Doctoral advisorBruce Murray, Gene Shoemaker[1]

Larry Soderblom (born 1944) is a geophysicist at the United States Geological Survey. He received bachelor's degrees in geology and physics from New Mexico Tech in 1966, and a PhD in Geophysics and Planetary Science from Caltech in 1970.[2]

He served as Deputy Imaging Team lead for the Voyager missions[3], as Co-Investigator for the Mars Exploration Rover mission, and as an Interdisciplinary Scientist for the Cassini mission[4].

He acted as Vice Chair for the 2013 Planetary Science Decadal Survey published by the National Research Council.

He received the 2014 Whipple Award[5] and the 2000 G.K. Gilbert Award.


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