{"id":30033,"date":"2025-06-19T15:58:45","date_gmt":"2025-06-19T15:58:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=30033"},"modified":"2025-06-19T16:25:34","modified_gmt":"2025-06-19T16:25:34","slug":"edward-anders-who-duped-nazis-and-illuminated-the-cosmos-dies-at-98","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=30033","title":{"rendered":"Edward Anders, Who Duped Nazis and Illuminated the Cosmos, Dies at 98"},"content":{"rendered":"
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His research unraveled mysteries about the solar system and the demise of the dinosaurs. In retirement, he turned his attention to the Holocaust.<\/p>\n

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Edward Anders, a cosmochemist who unraveled mysteries about the solar system and the wildfires that helped wipe out the dinosaurs \u2014 and who then, in retirement, uncovered the identities of thousands of Jews from his hometown who were killed in the Holocaust \u2014 died on June 1 in San Mateo, Calif. He was 98.<\/p>\n

His death, in an assisted living facility, was confirmed by his son, George.<\/p>\n

Professor Anders emigrated to the United States in 1949, a few months after being called to testify at the Nuremberg trials about Nazi brutality in Liepaja, Latvia, in 1941 \u2014 events that he and his mother survived after she tricked soldiers into believing that she was of Aryan descent. His father wasn\u2019t as fortunate.<\/p>\n

Settling in New York City, Edward enrolled at Columbia University and studied chemistry. One day, his professor \u2014 a curator at the American Museum of Natural History \u2014 brought a handful of meteorite rocks to pass around in class.<\/p>\n

\u201cI found them tremendously exciting,\u201d Professor Anders said in a 2001 interview with the journal Meteoritics & Planetary Science. \u201cI would even use the word romantic. Here were samples from far beyond the Earth\u2019s orbit, older than any rock on Earth, and you can get your hands on them, and even do respectable research on them.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Professor Anders\u2019s research turned out to be more than merely respectable. At the University of Chicago, his academic home for more than 30 years beginning in 1955, he conducted a series of groundbreaking studies into the early history of the solar system.<\/p>\n

He demonstrated that meteorites were fragments from asteroids and not, as was believed at the time, debris from the moon or comets. He quantified the elements of the solar system in a journal article<\/a> that has been cited more than 14,000 times. And he uncovered evidence of the global wildfires that helped lead to the dinosaurs\u2019 extinction.<\/p>\n

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His research unraveled mysteries about the solar system and the demise of the dinosaurs. In retirement, he turned his attention to the Holocaust.Edward Anders, a cosmochemist who unraveled mysteries about the solar system and the wildfires that helped wipe out the dinosaurs \u2014 and who then, in retirement, uncovered the identities of thousands of Jews from his hometown who were killed in the Holocaust \u2014 died on June 1 in San Mateo, Calif. He was 98.His death, in an assisted living facility, was confirmed by his son, George.Professor Anders emigrated to the United States in 1949, a few months after being called to testify at the Nuremberg trials about Nazi brutality in Liepaja, Latvia, in 1941 \u2014 events that he and his mother survived after she tricked soldiers into believing that she was of Aryan descent. His father wasn\u2019t as fortunate.Settling in New York City, Edward enrolled at Columbia University and studied chemistry. One day, his professor \u2014 a curator at the American Museum of Natural History \u2014 brought a handful of meteorite rocks to pass around in class.\u201cI found them tremendously exciting,\u201d Professor Anders said in a 2001 interview with the journal Meteoritics & Planetary Science. \u201cI would even use the word romantic. Here were samples from far beyond the Earth\u2019s orbit, older than any rock on Earth, and you can get your hands on them, and even do respectable research on them.\u201dProfessor Anders\u2019s research turned out to be more than merely respectable. At the University of Chicago, his academic home for more than 30 years beginning in 1955, he conducted a series of groundbreaking studies into the early history of the solar system.He demonstrated that meteorites were fragments from asteroids and not, as was believed at the time, debris from the moon or comets. He quantified the elements of the solar system in a journal article that has been cited more than 14,000 times. And he uncovered evidence of the global wildfires that helped lead to the dinosaurs\u2019 extinction.We are having trouble retrieving the article content.Please enable JavaScript in your browser settings.Thank you for your patience while we verify access. If you are in Reader mode please exit and\u00a0log into\u00a0your Times account, or\u00a0subscribe\u00a0for all of The Times.Thank you for your patience while we verify access.Already a subscriber?\u00a0Log in.Want all of The Times?\u00a0Subscribe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":30035,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30033","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30033","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=30033"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30033\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30036,"href":"http:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30033\/revisions\/30036"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/30035"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30033"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30033"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30033"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}