Laudatio for Joseph I. Goldstein on the Occasion of his 65th Birthday: Contributions to Meteoritics, Cosmochemistry, and Lunar Science

This Symposium entitled "Scanning Electron Microscopy and X-ray Microanalysis -the Next 35 Years" is dedicated to one of the pioneers in this field, Joseph I. Goldstein, on the occasion of his 65 th birthday (Fig. Joe was born on January 6, 1939 in Syracuse, N.Y. and was educated at MIT where, working with Bob Ogilvie, he received his Sc.D. in Metallurgy in 1964. Most of you know Joe from his monumental contributions to electron microbeam analytical instrumentation and techniques and their applications to phase equilibria, diffusion and metallurgical studies (Table You may also know him from his short courses in Scanning Electron Microscopy and X-ray Microanalysis at Lehigh University that educated thousands of analysts in these techniques. But Joe also made superb contributions to understanding the formation of meteorites and implications for the histories of their parent bodies, as well as to the understanding of metallic phases in Apollo lunar soils and rocks (Table Being a cosmochemist/meteoriticist myself, I will, in this talk, concentrate on Joe's contributions to these fields.