Biography:Sachiko Amari

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Short description: Japanese astrophysicist

Sachiko Amari is a Japanese astrophysicist who focuses upon presolar grains. She developed the method for isolating presolar grains in primitive meteorites and also researched noble gases in meteorites.[1] Amari was awarded the Urey Medal by the European Association of Geochemistry in 2021.[2] She currently is a Research Professor of Physics at Washington University in St. Louis.

Early life and education

Sachiko Amari received her PhD in 1986, at Kobe University, where she studied extra-terrestrial material within deep-sea sediments.[3]

Career and research

Sachiko Amari worked as a research assistant with the University of Chicago's Chemistry Department starting in 1988.[3] She then began working at Washington University in St. Louis in 1990 where she currently still works as a Research Professor of Physics.[3] Amari is also a visiting scientist at the Geochemical Research Center at the University of Tokyo, Japan.[4]

Sachiko Amari also has been a fellow of the Meteoritical Society since 2000[5] and is a fellow of the Japan Geoscience Union as of 2022.[6]

Awards and honors

  • 2000 - Meteoritical Society Fellowship
  • 2021 - H.C. Urey Award
  • 2022 - Japan Geoscience Union Fellowship

Publications

  • Matsuda J., Tsukamoto H., Miyakawa C. and Amari S. (2010). Noble gas study of the Saratov L4 chondrite. Meteorit. Planet. Sci. 45, pp. 361-372.[7]
  • Amari S. (2009). Presolar diamond in meteorites. Publ. Astron. Soc. Australia 26, pp. 266-270.[8]
  • Sachiko Amari, Shiho Zaizen, Jun-Ichi Matsuda, An attempt to separate Q from the Allende meteorite by physical methods, Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, Volume 67, Issue 24, 2003, Pages 4665-4677, ISSN 0016-7037, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gca.2003.08.009.[9]

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