Merle A. Tuve Senior Fellows
Merle A. Tuve served as DTM director from 1946-1966. Among his many scientific accomplishments, he supervised the design of a pressurized Van de Graaff generator, which achieved energies above 4 MeV. He also began construction of a 60-inch cyclotron designed to produce large quantities of radioactive isotopes.
Desmond Moser
Professor, Department of Earth Sciences
Western University, Ontario, Canada
1 March - 31 March 2020 (Lecture date below Postponed)
Tuve Lecture: March 26, 2020
Kurt L. Feigl
Professor, Department of Geoscience
University of Wisconsin-Madison
November 4 - November 13; December 1 - December 6, 2019
Tuve Lecture: November 7, 2019
Geoffrey A. Abers
Snee Professor in Geological Sciences
Cornell Engineering, Earth and Atmospheric Sciences
October 22 - November 22, 2019
Tuve Lecture: October 31, 2019
Albrecht W. Hofmann
Emeritus Director, Max Planck Institute for Chemistry; Adjunct Professor (LDEO) and University of Nanjing
Max Planck Gesellschaft; Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory of Columbia University; University of Nanjing, China
May 15 - June 9, 2018
Tuve Lecture: May 31, 2018
Morris Podolak
Professor of Planetary Sciences
Tel Aviv University
January 1 - March 1, 2018
Tuve Lecture: February 8, 2018
Michael R. Perfit
Distinguished Professor of Geology, Department of Geological Sciences
University of Florida, Gainesville
October 3 - November 24, 2017
Tuve Lecture: October 19, 2017
Joel Kastner
Professor of Imaging Science and Astrophysical Sciences and Technology
Rochester Institute of Technology
January 25 - March 10, 2017
Tuve Lecture: February 16, 2017
Jacqueline Dixon
Dean, College of Marine Science at University of South Florida
University of South Florida
March 3 ~ April 20, 2016
Tuve Lecture: April 7, 2016
Robert Stern
Research Scientist
The University of Texas at Dallas
May 6 - May 26, 2015
Tuve Lecture: May 13, 2015
Kiyoshi Suyehiro
Principal Scientist
Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology (JAMSTEC)
February 2 - April 10, 2015
Tuve Lecture: April 2, 2015
Richard J. Walker
Professor of Geology
University of Maryland
September 8 - November 8, 2014
Tuve Lecture: January 8, 2015
Douglas Wiens
Professor and Chairman of the Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences
Washington University, St. Louis
August 2013 - November 2013
Tuve Lecture: October 16, 2013
David Bercovici
Fredrick William Beinecke Professor of Geophysics
Yale University
October 2012 - February 2013
Tuve Lecture: June 12, 2013
Peter George Baines
Professorial Fellow of Infrastructure Engineering
University of Melbourne
September 2012
Tuve Lecture: October 3, 2012
Michael Werner
Project Scientist for Spitzer Space Telescope
Jet Propulsion Laboratory
9 July - 9 August 2012
Tuve Lecture: July 18, 2012
A.M. Celal ŞENGÖR
Professor and Member of the Turkish Academy of Sciences
Istanbul Technical University, Eurasia Institute of Earth Sciences
8 November - 21 November 2011
Tuve Lecture: November 16, 2011
Francis Nimmo
Professor of Earth and Planetary Sciences
University of California, Santa Cruz
1 November - 28 November 2011
Tuve Lecture: November 9, 2011
Emily E. Brodsky
Professor of Earth and Planetary Sciences
University of California, Santa Cruz
1 November - 28 November 2011
Tuve Lecture: November 2, 2011
Ernst Zinner
Research Professor of Physics and Earth and Planetary Sciences
Washington University, St. Louis
12 April - 31 May 2010
Tuve Lecture: April 14, 2010
James Elliot
Professor of Physics and Professor of Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences; Director, George R. Wallace, Jr. Astrophysical Observatory
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
20 March 2006 - 14 April 2006
Tuve Lecture: April 5, 2006
Steven Beckwith
Vice President for Research and Graduate Studies
University of California
21 September 2005 - 15 December 2005
Tuve Lecture: October 19, 2005
William M. White
Professor of Geological Sciences
Cornell University
15 January 2002 - 31 May 2002
Tuve Lecture: April 26, 2002
Jocelyn Bell Burnell
Professor of Physics and Chair of Department
The Open University
8 May 2000 - 12 May 2000
Tuve Lecture: May 10, 2000
Renzo Sancisi
Professor of Astronomy
University of Groningen
1 April - 30 April 1998
Tuve Lecture: April 21, 1999
Don L. Anderson
Professor of Geophysics, Emeritus
California Institute of Technology
10 October 1998 - 21 November 1998
Tuve Lecture: October 15, 1998
Frank D. Stacey
Professor Emeritus and Honorary Research Consultant
University of Queensland, Australia
1 June - 30 June 1998
Tuve Lecture: June 2, 1998
Bernard Burke
Professor of Astrophysics, Emeritus
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
1 January - 30 January 1997
Tuve Lecture: January 28, 1997