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Apr 28, 1928 Los Angeles, California, United States Died on 18 Jul 1997 (aged 69)
American geologist and astronomer
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About Eugene Merle Shoemaker
- Eugene Merle Shoemaker (April 28, 1928 – July 18, 1997), also known as Gene Shoemaker, was an American geologist and one of the founders of the field of planetary science.
- He is best known for co-discovering the Comet Shoemaker–Levy 9 with his wife Carolyn S.
- Shoemaker and David H.
- Levy.
- This comet hit Jupiter in July 1994: the impact was televised around the world. Shoemaker was also well known for his studies of terrestrial craters, such as Barringer Meteor Crater in Arizona.
- Shoemaker was also the first director of the United States Geological Survey's Astrogeology Research Program.
