Guy Consolmagno, SJ was born in Detroit, Michigan, earned undergraduate and masters’ degrees in earth and planetary sciences from MIT (in 1974 and 1975), and a PhD in planetary science from the University of Arizona in 1978. He worked as a post-doctoral fellow and lecturer at Harvard University’s department of astronomy, and MIT’s department of earth and planetary sciences; served in the US Peace Corps, teaching physics at the University of Nairobi; and was a physics professor at Lafayette College in Pennsylvania, before entering the Jesuits as a brother in 1989. At the Vatican Observatory since 1993, his research explores connections between meteorites, asteroids, and the evolution of small solar system bodies. |
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