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Carnegie Institution for Science: Washington, DC, US

1976-10-01 to present | Senior Staff Scientist (Geophysical Laboratory)
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Robert Hazen

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Harvard University: Cambridge, MA, US

1971-09-01 to 1975-11-01 | PhD (Geological Sciences)
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Robert Hazen

Massachusetts Institute of Technology: Cambridge, MA, US

1966-09-01 to 1971-06-30 | BS and SM (Earth and Planetary Sciences)
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Robert Hazen

Works (40)

Characterizing life influence on Earth's mineralogy via mineral network analysis

2025-01-20 | Preprint
DOI: 10.5194/egusphere-egu24-14196
Contributors: Shaunna Morrison; Anirudh Prabhu; Robert Hazen; Michael Wong; Donato Giovannelli; Ahmed Eleish
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Documenting the Co-Evolution of Earth and Life: A Mineral Evolution Approach 

2025-01-20 | Preprint
DOI: 10.5194/egusphere-egu24-4723
Contributors: Robert Hazen
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Mineral Informatics: A Key to Deep-Time Data-Driven Discovery in Earth and Planetary Sciences

2025-01-20 | Preprint
DOI: 10.5194/egusphere-egu24-4641
Contributors: Robert M. Hazen; Shaunna M. Morrison; Anirudh Prabhu
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Reply to ‘Experimental measurement of assembly indices are required to determine the threshold for life’

Journal of The Royal Society Interface
2024-11 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1098/rsif.2024.0622
Contributors: Robert M. Hazen; Peter C. Burns; H. James Cleaves II; Robert T. Downs; Sergey V. Krivovichev; Michael L. Wong
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An evolutionary system of mineralogy, Part VIII: The evolution of metamorphic minerals

American Mineralogist
2024-10-01 | Journal article
DOI: 10.2138/am-2023-9004
Contributors: Shaunna M. Morrison; Anirudh Prabhu; Robert M. Hazen
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Using adjacency matrix to explore remarkable associations in big and small mineral data

Geoscience Frontiers
2024-09 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1016/j.gsf.2024.101823
Contributors: Xiang Que; Jingyi Huang; Jolyon Ralph; Jiyin Zhang; Anirudh Prabhu; Shaunna Morrison; Robert Hazen; Xiaogang Ma
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Gypsum on Mars: A Detailed View at Gale Crater

Minerals
2024-08 | Journal article | Author
DOI: 10.3390/min14080815
Contributors: David Vaniman; Steve Chipera; Elizabeth Rampe; Thomas Bristow; David Blake; Johannes M. Meusburger; Tanya Peretyazhko; William Rapin; Jeff Berger; Douglas Ming et al.
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Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute

Reply to Root-Bernstein: Increasing complexity allows for the pervasiveness of low-complexity entities and is not anthropocentric

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
2024-08-20 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2406598121
Contributors: Michael L. Wong; Stuart Bartlett; Carol E. Cleland; Heather Demarest; H. James Cleaves, II; Anirudh Prabhu; Jonathan I. Lunine; Robert M. Hazen
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Expanded Insights into Martian Mineralogy: Updated Analysis of Gale Crater’s Mineral Composition via CheMin Crystal Chemical Investigations

Minerals
2024-07-29 | Journal article
DOI: 10.3390/min14080773
Contributors: Shaunna M. Morrison; David F. Blake; Thomas F. Bristow; Nicholas Castle; Steve J. Chipera; Patricia I. Craig; Robert T. Downs; Ahmed Eleish; Robert M. Hazen; Johannes M. Meusburger et al.
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Open-ended versus bounded evolution: Mineral evolution as a case study

PNAS Nexus
2024-06-28 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1093/pnasnexus/pgae248
Contributors: Robert M Hazen; Michael L Wong; Harry McSween
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The Chemistry and Mineralogy (CheMin) X-ray Diffractometer on the MSL Curiosity Rover: A Decade of Mineralogy from Gale Crater, Mars

Minerals
2024-05 | Journal article | Author
DOI: 10.3390/min14060568
Contributors: David Blake; Valerie Tu; Thomas Bristow; Elizabeth Rampe; David Vaniman; Steve Chipera; Philippe Sarrazin; Richard Morris; Shaunna Morrison; Albert Yen et al.
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Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute

The Average Symmetry Index of Minerals Co-Varies with Their Hydrogen Content, Rarity, and Paragenetic Mode

Minerals
2024-04-08 | Journal article
DOI: 10.3390/min14040387
Contributors: Marko Bermanec; Noa Vidović; Xiaogang Ma; Robert M. Hazen
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Molecular assembly indices of mineral heteropolyanions: some abiotic molecules are as complex as large biomolecules

Journal of The Royal Society Interface
2024-02 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1098/rsif.2023.0632
Contributors: Robert M. Hazen; Peter C. Burns; H. James Cleaves, II; Robert T. Downs; Sergey V. Krivovichev; Michael L. Wong
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Mineral Informatics: Origins

2023 | Book chapter
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-28805-0_3
Contributors: Anirudh Prabhu; Shaunna M. Morrison; Robert M. Hazen
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The Evolution of Mineral Evolution

2023 | Book chapter
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-28805-0_2
Contributors: Robert M. Hazen; Shaunna M. Morrison; Anirudh Prabhu
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On the roles of function and selection in evolving systems

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
2023-10-24 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2310223120
Contributors: Michael L. Wong; Carol E. Cleland; Daniel Arend, Jr.; Stuart Bartlett; H. James Cleaves, II; Heather Demarest; Anirudh Prabhu; Jonathan I. Lunine; Robert M. Hazen
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A robust, agnostic molecular biosignature based on machine learning

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
2023-10-10 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2307149120
Contributors: H. James Cleaves, II; Grethe Hystad; Anirudh Prabhu; Michael L. Wong; George D. Cody; Sophia Economon; Robert M. Hazen
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On the Diversity and Formation Modes of Martian Minerals

Journal of Geophysical Research: Planets
2023-09 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1029/2023JE007865
Contributors: Robert M. Hazen; Robert T. Downs; Shaunna M. Morrison; Benjamin M. Tutolo; David F. Blake; Thomas F. Bristow; Steve J. Chipera; Harry Y. McSween; Doug Ming; Richard V. Morris et al.
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An evolutionary system of mineralogy, Part VII: The evolution of the igneous minerals (>2500 Ma)

American Mineralogist
2023-09-01 | Journal article
DOI: 10.2138/am-2022-8539
Contributors: Robert M. Hazen; Shaunna M. Morrison; Anirudh Prabhu; Michael J. Walter; Jason R. Williams
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Manganese-Iron Phosphate Nodules at the Groken Site, Gale Crater, Mars

Minerals
2023-08 | Journal article | Author
DOI: 10.3390/min13091122
Contributors: Allan H. Treiman; Nina L. Lanza; Scott VanBommel; Jeff Berger; Roger Wiens; Thomas Bristow; Jeffrey Johnson; Melissa Rice; Reginald Hart; Amy McAdam et al.
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Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute

The Evolution of Mineral Hardness Reveals Both Changing Parageneses and Preservational Bias in the Mineralogical Record

Minerals
2023-08-15 | Journal article
DOI: 10.3390/min13081089
Contributors: Marko Bermanec; Ahmed M. Eleish; Shaunna M. Morrison; Anirudh Prabhu; Michael L. Wong; Robert M. Hazen
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Toward Network‐Based Planetary Biosignatures: Atmospheric Chemistry as Unipartite, Unweighted, Undirected Networks

Journal of Geophysical Research: Planets
2023-06 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1029/2022JE007658
Contributors: M. L. Wong; A. Prabhu; J. Williams; S. M. Morrison; R. M. Hazen
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Predicting new mineral occurrences and planetary analog environments via mineral association analysis

PNAS Nexus
2023-05-02 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1093/pnasnexus/pgad110
Contributors: Shaunna M Morrison; Anirudh Prabhu; Ahmed Eleish; Robert M Hazen; Joshua J Golden; Robert T Downs; Samuel Perry; Peter C Burns; Jolyon Ralph; Peter Fox et al.
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An evolutionary system of mineralogy, Part VI: Earth’s earliest Hadean crust (>4370 Ma)

American Mineralogist
2023-01-03 | Journal article
DOI: 10.2138/am-2022-8329
Contributors: Shaunna M. Morrison; Anirudh Prabhu; Robert M. Hazen
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Abundant phosphorus expected for possible life in Enceladus’s ocean

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
2022-09-27 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2201388119
Contributors: Jihua Hao; Christopher R. Glein; Fang Huang; Nathan Yee; David C. Catling; Frank Postberg; Jon K. Hillier; Robert M. Hazen
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Lumping and splitting: Toward a classification of mineral natural kinds

American Mineralogist
2022-07-01 | Journal article
DOI: 10.2138/am-2022-8105
Contributors: Robert M. Hazen; Shaunna M. Morrison; Sergey V. Krivovichev; Robert T. Downs
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On the paragenetic modes of minerals: A mineral evolution perspective

American Mineralogist
2022-07-01 | Journal article
DOI: 10.2138/am-2022-8099
Contributors: Robert M. Hazen; Shaunna M. Morrison
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Evidence that the GOE was a prolonged event with a peak around 1900 Ma

Geosystems and Geoenvironment
2022-05 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1016/j.geogeo.2022.100036
Contributors: Ross R. Large; Robert M. Hazen; Shaunna M. Morrison; Dan D Gregory; Jeffrey A. Steadman; Indrani Mukherjee
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Structural and chemical complexity of minerals: an update

Mineralogical Magazine
2022-04 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1180/mgm.2022.23
Contributors: Sergey V. Krivovichev; Vladimir G. Krivovichev; Robert M. Hazen; Sergey M. Aksenov; Margarita S. Avdontceva; Alexander M. Banaru; Liudmila A. Gorelova; Rezeda M. Ismagilova; Ilya V. Kornyakov; Ivan V. Kuporev et al.
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An evolutionary system of mineralogy, Part V: Aqueous and thermal alteration of planetesimals (~4565 to 4550 Ma)

American Mineralogist
2021-09-01 | Journal article
DOI: 10.2138/am-2021-7760
Contributors: Robert M. Hazen; Shaunna M. Morrison
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A Review of the Phyllosilicates in Gale Crater as Detected by the CheMin Instrument on the Mars Science Laboratory, Curiosity Rover

Minerals
2021-08 | Journal article | Author
DOI: 10.3390/min11080847
Contributors: Valerie M. Tu; Elizabeth B. Rampe; Thomas F. Bristow; Michael T. Thorpe; Joanna V. Clark; Nicholas Castle; Abigail Fraeman; Lauren Edgar; Amy McAdam; Candice Bedford et al.
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Association announcement 2021 Felix Chayes Prize

Computers & Geosciences
2021-05 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1016/j.cageo.2021.104743
Contributors: Robert M. Hazen
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An evolutionary system of mineralogy, Part IV: Planetesimal differentiation and impact mineralization (4566 to 4560 Ma)

American Mineralogist
2021-05-01 | Journal article
DOI: 10.2138/am-2021-7632
Contributors: Shaunna M. Morrison; Robert M. Hazen
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An evolutionary system of mineralogy. Part III: Primary chondrule mineralogy (4566 to 4561 Ma)

American Mineralogist
2021-03-01 | Journal article
DOI: 10.2138/am-2020-7564
Contributors: Robert M. Hazen; Shaunna M. Morrison; Anirudh Prabhu
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Historical natural kinds and mineralogy: Systematizing contingency in the context of necessity

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
2021-01-05 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2015370118
Contributors: Carol E. Cleland; Robert M. Hazen; Shaunna M. Morrison
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Reply to “A comment on ‘An evolutionary system of mineralogy: Proposal for a classification of planetary materials based on natural kind clustering’”

American Mineralogist
2021-01-01 | Journal article
DOI: 10.2138/am-2021-7773
Contributors: Robert M. Hazen
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Data-driven discovery in mineralogy: Recent advances in data resources, analysis, and visualization

Engineering
2019-05 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1016/j.eng.2019.03.006
Contributors: Robert M. Hazen; Robert T. Downs; Ahmed Eleish; Peter Fox; Olivier C. Gagné; Joshua J. Golden; Edward S. Grew; Daniel R. Hummer; Grethe Hystad; Sergey V. Krivovichev et al.
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The Paleomineralogy of the Hadean Eon Revisited

Life
2018-12 | Journal article | Author
DOI: 10.3390/life8040064
Contributors: Shaunna M. Morrison; Simone E. Runyon; Robert Hazen
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Chance, necessity and the origins of life: a physical sciences perspective

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences
2017-12-28 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1098/rsta.2016.0353
Contributors: Robert M. Hazen
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Statistical analysis of mineral diversity and distribution: Earth's mineralogy is unique

Earth and Planetary Science Letters
2015-09 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1016/j.epsl.2015.06.028
Contributors: Grethe Hystad; Robert T. Downs; Edward S. Grew; Robert M. Hazen
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