Harold Y. McSween

Harold "Hap" McSween is exactly the kind of mind I admire. A planetary geoscientist from Charlotte, North Carolina, and Chancellor's Professor Emeritus at the University of Tennessee, he built his career reading the origins of the solar system in meteorites, stones that literally fell from space. His honors, the Leonard Medal, the J. Lawrence Smith Medal, and AAAS fellowship, mark him as a heavyweight in his field. What I love most is that he also wrote popular books, choosing to share the cosmos with ordinary readers. A scholar who looked up at the sky and found the universe in a rock has my full enthusiasm.

Name (English)

Harold Y. McSween

Name (Japanese)

ハロルド・マクスウィーン

Reading

はろるど・まくすうぃーん

Born

September 29, 1945 (age 80)

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Libra / Rooster

Origin

Charlotte, North Carolina, United States

Occupation

geologist / astrophysicist

University

University of Georgia

Awards & achievements

• 2012 J. Lawrence Smith Medal
• 2001 Leonard Medal
• 2013 Whipple Award
• 2008 Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science

Motto

Private

• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%8F%E3%83%AD%E3%83%AB%E3%83%89%E3%83%BB%E3%83%9E%E3%82%AF%E3%82%B9%E3%82%A6%E3%82%A3%E3%83%BC%E3%83%B3

Tags

• North Carolina
• geologist
• astrophysicist

Last updated

2026-06-02

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