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Eugene Shoemaker
Eugene "Gene" Shoemaker was a geologist and one of the founders of the field of planetary science.
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He is perhaps best known for co-discovering the Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 with his wife Carolyn Shoemaker and David Levy. Shoemaker studied the impact dynamics of Barringer Crater in Arizona for his Ph.D. at Princeton University, which he received in
Shoemaker helped pioneer the field of astrogeology by founding the Astrogeology Research Program of the U.S.
Geological Survey in at Flagstaff, Arizona and he was its first director.
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He was prominently involved in the Lunar Ranger missions to the Moon, which showed that the Moon was covered with a wide size range of impact craters. Shoemaker was also involved in the training of the American astronauts.
He himself was a possible candidate for an Apollo Moon flight and was set to be the first geologist to walk on the Moon but was disqualified due to being diagn