Ross John Angel (born October 26, 1959) is an internationally recognized researcher in mineralogy, expert in crystallography and elastic properties of geological materials and key industrial materials, which he studies with experimental and analytical approaches. He is the lead author or co-author of over 240 articles in international scientific journals, he received the

Dana Medal The Dana Medal, established in 1998, is awarded by the Mineralogical Society of America and is named in honor of the contributions made by James Dwight Dana (1813–1895) and Edward Salisbury Dana (1849–1935) to the science of mineralogy. It recog ...

from the

Mineralogical Society of America The Mineralogical Society of America (MSA) is a scientific membership organization. MSA was founded in 1919 for the advancement of mineralogy, crystallography, geochemistry, and petrology, and promotion of their uses in other sciences, industr ...

in 2011 and is currently a director of research at the Institute of Geosciences and Geo-resources of the

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Education

Ross John Angel was educated at the

Trinity School of John Whitgift The Trinity School of John Whitgift, usually referred to as Trinity School, is a British independent boys' day school with a co-educational Sixth Form, located in Shirley Park, Croydon. Part of the Whitgift Foundation, it was established in 1 ...

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and then at

Clare College, Cambridge Clare College is a constituent college of the University of Cambridge in Cambridge, England. The college was founded in 1326 as University Hall, making it the second-oldest surviving college of the University after Peterhouse. It was refound ...

in the University of Cambridge. He obtained his

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in Mineral Sciences in 1982, and his

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and PhD in 1986, all from the

University of Cambridge The University of Cambridge is a public collegiate research university in Cambridge, England. Founded in 1209 and granted a royal charter by Henry III in 1231, Cambridge is the world's third oldest surviving university and one of its most pr ...

Career

Ross John Angel won a NATO Overseas Research Fellowship and joined Prof. Charles Prewitt's group at the Stony Brook University in 1985 to develop new analysis methods to determine the crystal structures of incommensurate minerals. When Charlie Prewitt was appointed director of the Geophysical Laboratory of the Carnegie Institution of Washington, now known as

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, Ross Angel moved with him. At the Geophysical Laboratory staff members

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and Larry Finger trained him in high-pressure crystallography. Ross was part of the team that determined the crystal structures of the first high-temperature super-conductors in 1987, In 1988 Ross Angel won a 1983 University Research Fellowship from the

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to work at

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under the direction of

David Price (British academic) Geoffrey David Price (born January 12, 1956) has been Vice-Provost (Research) of UCL (University College London) since 2007 and Professor of Mineral Physics in the UCL Department of Earth Sciences since 1991. Price is responsible for promoting, ...

, and in 1994 was appointed to the staff at the Bayerisches Geoinstitut, directed by

Friedrich Seifert Friedrich Alfred Seifert (born 8 May 1941) is a German mineralogist and geophysicist. He is the founding director of Bayerisches Geoinstitut at University of Bayreuth. A silicate mineral, seifertite, is named after him. Life and work Seifert was b ...

, at the

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, in Bayreuth, Germany. In 2001 he was appointed research professor in crystallography at

Virginia Tech Virginia Tech (formally the Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University and informally VT, or VPI) is a public land-grant research university with its main campus in Blacksburg, Virginia. It also has educational facilities in six re ...

in the US and with Nancy L. Ross founded the Virginia Tech Crystallography Laboratory which performs X-ray diffraction measurements in support of research programs in chemistry, geosciences, physics, and biological sciences,,. In 2011 Ross John Angel held a Mercator Professorship of the German Research Foundation at the Mineralogisch-Petrographisches Institut of the

University of Hamburg The University of Hamburg (german: link=no, Universität Hamburg, also referred to as UHH) is a public research university in Hamburg, Germany. It was founded on 28 March 1919 by combining the previous General Lecture System ('' Allgemeines Vo ...

in Germany and then moved to Italy to work in the Department of Earth Sciences of the University of Padova (2011-2017). After two years on the faculty at the Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences of the

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, in 2019 he joined the Institute of Geosciences and Geo-resources of the

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, Italy where he is now a director of research.

Current research

Ross John Angel has developed and established novel methods for single-crystal diffraction, at extreme conditions in order to characterize and understand the fundamental relationships between the atomic-scale structures and properties of materials. The software that he has developed for controlling single-crystal X-ray diffractometers, and processing of data is distributed as

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and is in use by many research groups world-wide. With colleagues he is developing elasticity theory and methods to measure the stress and strain of inclusions inside host minerals in order to determine the pressures and temperatures at which they were trapped deep inside the Earth.

Honors

Ross John Angel has been the recipient of major honors at both national and international levels. United-Kingdom: Ross John Angel has received the Phillips Crystallography Award of the

British Crystallographic Association The British Crystallographic Association (BCA) is an association for crystallographers, based in the United Kingdom. It is one of the largest crystallographic societies in the world. The Association administers a Dorothy Hodgkin Prize and an Arn ...

in 1991 and in 1993 the first Max Hey Award of the Mineralogical Society of Great Britain and Ireland. International: Ross John Angel has been a fellow of the

since 1991. He received the Medal for Research Excellence of the European Mineralogical Union (1998). More recently, he received the

from the

in 2011 Ross John Angel is also involved in the mineralogy community by serving as: *Councilor of the International Mineralogical Association (IMA) (2021–present) *Technical editor for crystal structures, ''

American Mineralogist ''American Mineralogist: An International Journal of Earth and Planetary Materials'' is a peer-reviewed scientific journal covering the general fields of mineralogy, crystallography, geochemistry, and petrology. It is an official journal of the Min ...

'' (2013-2021) *Member of the Editorial Advisory board of ''

Physics and Chemistry of Minerals ''Physics and Chemistry of Minerals'' is a peer-reviewed scientific journal published monthly by Springer Science+Business Media. The journal publishes articles and short communications on minerals or solids related to minerals and covers applica ...

'' (2020–present) *Member of the Editorial Advisory board of ''

Zeitschrift für Kristallographie – Crystalline Materials ''Zeitschrift für Kristallographie – Crystalline Materials'' is a monthly peer-reviewed scientific journal published in English. The journal publishes theoretical and experimental studies in crystallography of both organic and inorganic substanc ...

'' (2013–present) *Councilor of the

(2005-2007) *Associate editor of the ''European Journal of Mineralogy''

Publications

Selected notable scientific publications in international journals. *Angel RJ, Chopelas A, Ross NL (1992) Stability of high-density clinoenstatite at upper-mantle pressures. ''Nature'' 358:322-324. *Angel RJ, Allan DR, Miletich R, Finger LW (1997) The use of quartz as an internal pressure standard in high-pressure crystallography. ''Journal of Applied Crystallography'' 30:461-466. *Angel RJ (2000) Equations of state. In RM Hazen and RT Downs (eds.), High-pressure and high-temperature crystal chemistry. ''Reviews in Mineralogy and Geochemistry'', 41:35-60. *Angel RJ, Bujak M, Zhao J, Gatta GD, Jacobsen SD (2007) Effective hydrostatic limits of pressure media for high-pressure crystallographic studies. ''Journal of Applied Crystallography'' 40:26-32. *Angel RJ, Gonzalez-Platas J, Alvaro M (2014) EosFit-7c and a Fortran module (library) for equation of state calculations. ''Zeitschrift für Kristallographie'', 229, 405–419.

References

External links

* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Angel, Ross John 1959 births Living people English mineralogists British crystallographers Alumni of Clare College, Cambridge Alumni of the University of Cambridge People from Croydon Fellows of the Mineralogical Society of America