J. Marvin Herndon

J. Marvin Herndon (b. 1944) is an American interdisciplinary scientist, who earned his BA degree in physics in 1970 from the University of California, San Diego and his Ph.D. degree in nuclear chemistry in 1974 from Texas A&M University. For three years, J. Marvin Herndon was a post-doctoral assistant to Hans Suess and Harold C. Urey in geochemistry and cosmochemistry at the University of California, San Diego. He is the President of Transdyne Corporation in San Diego, California. He has been profiled in Current Biography, and dubbed a “maverick geophysicist” by The Washington Post. [Current Biography 64: 45-49, 2003,http://www.NuclearPlanet.com/profile.htm] [The Washington Post, March 24, Page A06] He is most noted for deducing the composition of the inner core of Earth as being nickel silicide, not partially crystallized nickel-iron metal. Fact|date=June 2008 [Herndon, J. M. (1979) The nickel silicide inner core of the Earth. Proc. R. Soc. Lond. A368, 495-500.] More recently, he has suggested planetocentric nuclear fission reactors as energy sources for the gas giant outer planets. [Herndon, J. M. (1992) Nuclear fission reactors as energy sources for the giant outer planets. Naturwissenschaften 79, 7-14.] and stellar ignition by nuclear fission [Herndon, J. M. (1994) Planetary and protostellar nuclear fission: Implications for planetary change, stellar ignition and dark matter. Proc. Roy. Soc. Lond., A455, 453-461.]

Publications

*Herndon, J. M. (1993) "Feasibility of a nuclear fission reactor at the center of the Earth as the energy source for the geomagnetic field". J. Geomag. Geoelectr. 45, 423-437.
*Herndon, J. M. (1994) "Planetary and protostellar nuclear fission: Implications for planetary change, stellar ignition and dark matter". Proc. R. Soc. Lond A455, 453-461.
*Herndon, J. M. (1996) "Sub-structure of the inner core of the earth". Proc. Nat. Acad. Sci. USA 93, 646-648.
*Hollenbach, D. F. and Herndon, J. M. (2001) "Deep-earth reactor: nuclear fission, helium, and the geomagnetic field". Proc. Nat. Acad. Sci. USA 98, 11085-11090.
*Herndon, J. M. (2003) "Nuclear georeactor origin of oceanic basalt 3He/4He, evidence, and implications". Proc. Nat. Acad. Sci. USA 100, 3047-3050.
*Herndon, J. M. (2004) "Scientific basis of knowledge on Earth's composition". Curr Sci. 88, 1034-1037.
*Herndon, J. M. (2005) "Whole-Earth decompression dynamics". Curr. Sci. 89(11), 1937-1941.
*Herndon, J. M. (2006) "Energy for geodynamics: Mantle decompression thermal-tsunami". Curr. Sci., 90(12), 1605-1606.
*Herndon, J. M. (2006) "Solar System processes underlying planetary formation, geodynamics, and the georeactor". Earth, Moon and Planets, 99, 53-99.
*Herndon, J. M. (2006) "Enhanced prognosis for abiotic natural gas and petroleum resources". Curr. Sci. 91(5), 596-598.
*Herndon, J. M. (2007) "Discovery of fundamental mass ratio relationships of whole-rock chondritic major elements: Implications on ordinary chondrite formation and on planet Mercury's composition". Curr. Sci. 93(3), 394-399.
*Herndon, J. M. (2007) "Nuclear georeactor generation of the earth's geomagnetic field". Curr. Sci. 93(11), 1485-1457.
*Herndon, J. M. (2008) "Maverick’s Earth and Universe", Vancouver:Trafford Press, ISBN 978-1-4251-4132-5.

References

External links

* [http://www.NuclearPlanet.com J. Marvin Herndon's website NuclearPlanet.com]
* [http://www.UnderstandEarth.com J. Marvin Herndon's website UnderstandEarth.com]