Education
Hazen received a Bachelor of Surgery and Master of Surgery in Earth Science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology 1971, and a Doctor of Philosophy at Harvard University in Mineralogy & Crystallography 1975.
mineralogist Distinguished Lecturer
Hazen received a Bachelor of Surgery and Master of Surgery in Earth Science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology 1971, and a Doctor of Philosophy at Harvard University in Mineralogy & Crystallography 1975.
He is a research scientist at the Carnegie Institution of Washington"s Geophysical Laboratory and Clarence Robinson Professor of Earth Science at George Mason University, in the United States. After studies as North Atlantic Treaty Organization Postdoctoral Fellow at Cambridge University in England, he joined the Carnegie Institution’s research effort. Hazen is author of more than 350 articles and 20 books on science, history, and music
He has presented numerous named lectures at universities, and is currently Sigma Xi Distinguished Lecturer (2008–2010).
He served as Distinguished Lecturer for the Mineralogical Society of America, and is a Past President of the Society. Hazen’s recent research focuses on the role of minerals in the origin of life, including such processes as mineral-catalyzed organic synthesis and the selective adsorption of organic molecules on mineral surfaces.
He has also developed a new approach to mineralogy, called “mineral evolution,” which explores the co-evolution of the geoand biospheres. He is also an adviser to the Microbes Mind Forum.
The mineral hazenite was named in his honor.