Background
Mautner, Michael Noah was born on February 19, 1942 in Budapest, Hungary. Son of Imre and Magda (Klein) Mautner.
chemistry and space science researcher
Mautner, Michael Noah was born on February 19, 1942 in Budapest, Hungary. Son of Imre and Magda (Klein) Mautner.
1966 Bachelor of Science Hebrew University
1968 Master of Science Georgetown University
1975 Doctor of Philosophy Rockefeller University (with F H Field).
1966 Bachelor of Science Science Mautner served as Associate and Assistant Professor at the Rockefeller University, Adjunct Professor and Senior Fellow at the University of Canterbury, Marsden Fellow and Senior Research Fellow Lincoln University, and Research Chemist at the National Institute of Standards and Technology. He currently serves as Research Professor at Virginia Commonwealth University. In 1995, he founded the volunteer-based The Panspermia Society (Society for Life in Space - SOLIS), that aims to expand life in space by directed panspermia missions.
The SOLIS program is motivated by biotic ethics that value our family of self-propagating gene/protein life, and panbiotic ethics that seeks to start life in new solar systems
Space science, astrobiology, astroecology, astrochemical and prebiotic ion chemistry. Organic and physical chemistry of planetary materials.
Nutrients, and biological responses to carbonaceous chondrite meteorites. Astroecology and the prospects for future life in space.
Directed panspermia and biotic space ethics.
Mass Spectrometry and Gas Phase Ion Chemistry: Kinetics and thermochemistry of ions. Clusters, hydrogen bonding, charge transfer complexes, temperature and pressure effects on ion reactions. Applications to physical organic chemistry, biophysics and astrochemistry.
Mautner published numerous papers and book chapters on physical chemistry (in chemistry, under the transliterated name Michael Meot-Ner (Mautner)) On astroecology and planetary science, his experiments showed that microorganisms grow on materials in meteorites/asteroids, that can be resources for early life, and for extensive future life in space.
He also investigated the science and technology of seeding the universe with our gene/protein family of life, and an ethical basis for this program in life-centered biotic ethics that value the basic patterns of self-propagating gene/protein life.
Vice president Canterbury Hebrew Congregation, since 1991. Member Royal Society New Zealand, World Future Society, Space Studies Institute, Society for Life in Space (organizing president since 1995), Panspermia Society.
Married Helene Doris Rosenberg, November 10, 1969. Children: Ira Nathan, Naomi Irene, Joel Ezra.