Education
Roger Summons was born in Sydney, Australia, and received Bachelor of Science (1968) and Doctor of Philosophy (1972) degrees in Chemistry from the University of Wollongong.
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Summons is particularly known for the application of organic geochemical techniques to sediments of Precambrian age and modern microbes in order to increase our understanding of the early evolution of life on Earth. Currently he is also engaged as a participating scientist with the search for organics in National Aeronautics and Space Administration’s Mars Science Laboratory mission. Outside academia Summons is an avid wine connoisseur and roots for the Boston Red Sox.
Before joining Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 2001, he held appointments at Stanford, Australian Iron and Steel, the Australian National University and at Geoscience Australia.
1987 - Fellow, Royal Australian Chemical Institute.
Achievements
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1987 - Fellow, Royal Australian Chemical Institute 1998 - Fellow, Australian Academy of Science 2003 - Alfred E. Treibs Award of the Geochemical Society 2005 - Halpern Medal, University of Wollongong 2006 - Fellow, American Geophysical Union 2008 - Alexander von Humboldt Foundation Research Award 2008 - Fellow, Royal Society 2012 - Fellow, American Academy of Microbiology.
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Royal Society.
