Klaus Keil

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Klaus Keil is the Interim Dean of the School of Ocean and Earth Science and Technology (SOEST) at the University of Hawai'i at Manoa. He is the former Director of the Hawaii Institute of Geophysics and Planetology. Klaus pioneered the use of the electron microprobe to study meteorite samples. In 2006, Klaus won the J. Lawrence Smith Medal, which is awarded by the National Academy of Sciences, for his pioneering quantitative studies of minerals in meteorites and important contributions to understanding the nature, origin, and evolution of their parent bodies. [link]

Asteroid 5054 Keil and the mineral keilite [link] are named after Klaus.

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