About Bruce Hapke
Born 1931. Bruce Hapke is a British geologist.
Bruce William Hapke (born February 17, 1931) is a noted American planetary scientist, currently a professor emeritus at the University of Pittsburgh and a specialist in bidirectional reflectance spectroscopy.
Career Born in Racine, Wisconsin, Hapke earned a B.S. in physics from the University of Wisconsin–Madison in 1953. He was awarded his Ph.D. in engineering physics from Cornell University in 1962. Hapke was a research associate at the Center for Radiophysics and Space Research at Cornell University Dr. Hapke is currently a professor emeritus at the University of Pittsburgh.
Awards and honors Elected a Legacy Fellow of the American Astronomical Society in 2020. Hapkeite, a lunar mineral, was named in his honor Asteroid 3549 Hapke Awarded the Kuiper Prize in 2001, the most distinguished award given by the American Astronomical Society's Division for Planetary Sciences Fellow of the American Geophysical Union
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American planetary scientist
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Bruce Hapke was born on 17 February 1931 in Racine.
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