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Laurel L. Wilkening

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beginning in 1973, and from 1981 was head of the Planetary Science department and director of the university's Lunar & Planetary Laboratory. She also served as the university's acting dean of sciences, and vice-president for research. While she was at Arizona, she helped to found the Women's
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Wilkening married fellow planetary chemist and former Carmelite friar, Godfrey T. Sill. She was widowed when Sill died in 2007. She died in 2019, aged 74 years, in Arizona. Some of her papers are in the University Archives at UCI.
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with her husband in her later years. In 2005, the University of California, Irvine dedicated the Laurel L. Wilkening Rose Garden on campus. In 2009, Wilkening received the UCI Medal.
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Studies program, and made a statistical report on pay equity on the campus. She later gave over $ 100,000 to the university's Women's Plaza of Honor project.
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On the Early History of Meteorites: Evidence from Glasses, from Fossil Particle Tracks and from the Noble Gases
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On the Early History of Meteorites: Evidence from Glasses, from Fossil Particle Tracks and from the Noble Gases
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Lunar and Planetary Laboratory & Department of Planetary Sciences | The University of Arizona
1206: 317:. Her mother, Ruby Alma Barks Wilkening, was a teacher; her father, Marvin H. Wilkening, was an 32: 1279: 1213:, testifying at a 1991 Congressional hearing on the future of the United States space program. 1158: 942: 851: 753: 743: 654: 318: 294: 205: 1323: 1285: 1125: 794: 346: 270: 251: 391: 1291: 1261: 426: 95: 1333: 1267: 1178: 798: 83: 383: 326: 180: 964:"Laurel Wilkening, former UA planetary scientist and dean of sciences, dies at 74" 620:"Laurel Wilkening, third UCI chancellor and noted planetary scientist, dies at 74" 239: 666: 387: 342: 338: 266: 993:"UC Irvine's 3rd chancellor, science educator Laurel Wilkening, has died at 74" 658: 371: 334: 256: 736: 367: 349:. She held post-doctoral appointments in Mumbai, Mainz, Paris, and Chicago. 1179:"Chancellor Laurel L. Wilkening Records (University of California, Irvine)" 757: 938:
Under Desert Skies: How Tucson Mapped the Way to the Moon and Planets
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Wilkening retired from academic work in 1998, and ran a vineyard in
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Chemist, planetary scientist, professor, college administrator
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in 1966. She completed doctoral studies in chemistry at the
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Planetary scientist and university administrator (1944–2019)
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Wilkening taught chemistry and planetary science at the
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University of California, Irvine
Jack Peltason
Ralph Cicerone
University of California, Irvine
Reed College
University of California, San Diego
Planetary science
University of Arizona
University of Washington
Thesis
On the Early History of Meteorites: Evidence from Glasses, from Fossil Particle Tracks and from the Noble Gases
Doctoral advisor
Hans Suess
Harold Urey
Hannes Alfvén
planetary scientist
University of California, Irvine
Richland, Washington
Socorro, New Mexico
atomic scientist during World War II
New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology
Reed College
University of California, San Diego
Hans Suess
Nobel Prize
Harold Urey
Hannes Alfvén
comets
meteorites

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