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Overview

Lutz Hecht is affiliated with the University of Glasgow in the United Kingdom. Their research primarily spans the fields of Earth and Planetary Sciences as well as Physics and Astronomy, with a notable focus on geophysics and astronomy-related subfields.

The scientist's recent publications cover a variety of topics within geological and planetary science domains. Selected papers include:

  • "Braided peridotite sills and metasomatism in the Rum Layered Suite, Scotland," 2020, Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology
  • "A large meteoritic event over Antarctica ca. 430 ka ago inferred from chondritic spherules from the Sør Rondane Mountains," 2021, Science Advances
  • "On exhumation velocities of high-pressure units based on insights from chemical zoning in garnet (Tianshan, NW China)," 2021, Earth and Planetary Science Letters
  • "Reconstructing the metamorphic evolution of the Araçuaí orogen (SE Brazil) using in situ U-Pb garnet dating and P-T modelling," 2021, Journal of Metamorphic Geology
  • "The fusion crust of the Winchcombe meteorite: A preserved record of atmospheric entry processes," 2023, Meteoritics and Planetary Science

Hecht frequently collaborates with a range of co-authors, with the most frequent including:

  • Felix Kaufmann
  • Steven Goderis
  • Philippe Claeys
  • Matthias Van Ginneken
  • Bastien Soens

Their work appears repeatedly in several publication venues reflecting their research's interdisciplinary nature. The most common venues are:

  • Meteoritics and Planetary Science
  • Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology
  • Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta
  • Goldschmidt2021 abstracts
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)

The main fields and subfields of study associated with Hecht's research comprise:

  • Earth and Planetary Sciences
  • Physics and Astronomy
  • Geophysics
  • Astronomy and Astrophysics
  • Atmospheric Science
  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Ecology

Key research topics include:

  • Geology and Paleoclimatology Research
  • Planetary Science and Exploration
  • Geological and Geochemical Analysis
  • Astro and Planetary Science
  • Earthquake and Tectonic Studies
  • Geochemistry and Geologic Mapping
  • High-pressure Geophysics and Materials

Best Publications

  • Solution structure and dynamics of biomolecules from Raman optical activity

    L.D. Barron;L. Hecht;E.W. Blanch;A.F. Bell

  • A Raman optical activity study of rheomorphism in caseins, synucleins and tau. New insight into the structure and behaviour of natively unfolded proteins.

    Christopher D. Syme;Ewan W. Blanch;Carl Holt;Ross Jakes

  • Is polyproline II helix the killer conformation? A Raman optical activity study of the amyloidogenic prefibrillar intermediate of human lysozyme.

    Ewan W Blanch;Ludmilla A Morozova-Roche;Duncan A.E Cochran;Andrew J Doig

  • Raman optical activity comes of age

    Laurence D. Barron;Lutz Hecht;Iain H. McColl;Ewan W. Blanch

  • A new perspective on beta-sheet structures using vibrational Raman optical activity: from poly(L-lysine) to the prion protein.

    Iain H McColl;Ewan W Blanch;Andrew C Gill;Alexandre G O Rhie

  • The lubricant of life: a proposal that solvent water promotes extremely fast conformational fluctuations in mobile heteropolypeptide structure.

    Laurence D. Barron;Lutz Hecht;Gary Wilson

  • Raman optical activity: a tool for protein structure analysis.

    Fujiang Zhu;Neil W. Isaacs;Lutz Hecht;Laurence D. Barron

  • Vibrational Raman optical activity characterization of poly(l-proline) II helix in alanine oligopeptides.

    Iain H. McColl;Ewan W. Blanch;Lutz Hecht;Neville R. Kallenbach

  • Absolute Configuration of Bromochlorofluoromethane from Experimental and Ab Initio Theoretical Vibrational Raman Optical Activity

    Jeanne Costante;Lutz Hecht;Prasad L. Polavarapu;André Collet

  • Rayleigh and Raman optical activity from chiral surfaces

    Lutz Hecht;Laurence D. Barron

  • Unfolded proteins studied by Raman optical activity.

    Barron Ld;Blanch Ew;Hecht L

  • Solution structure of native proteins with irregular folds from Raman optical activity

    Edward Smyth;Christopher D. Syme;Ewan W. Blanch;Lutz Hecht

  • A study of alpha-helix hydration in polypeptides, proteins, and viruses using vibrational raman optical activity.

    Iain H. McColl;Ewan W. Blanch;Lutz Hecht;Laurence D. Barron

  • Raman optical activity: An incisive probe of molecular chirality and biomolecular structure

    Laurence D. Barron;Fujiang Zhu;Lutz Hecht;George E. Tranter

  • Vibrational Raman optical activity of proteins, nucleic acids, and viruses

    Ewan W Blanch;Lutz Hecht;Laurence D Barron

  • Vibrational Raman optical activity in backscattering

    L. Hecht;L.D. Barron;W. Hug

  • Theory of natural Raman optical activity

    Lutz Hecht;Laurence A. Nafie

  • Experimental and ab initio theoretical vibrational Raman optical activity of alanine

    L.D. Barron;A.R. Gargaro;L. Hecht;P.L. Polavarapu

  • Molecular structures of viruses from Raman optical activity.

    Ewan W. Blanch;Lutz Hecht;Christopher D. Syme;Vito Volpetti

  • Residual Structure in Unfolded Proteins Revealed by Raman Optical Activity

    Gary Wilson;Lutz Hecht;Laurence D. Barron

Frequent Co-Authors

Laurence D. Barron
Laurence D. Barron University of Glasgow
Ewan W. Blanch
Ewan W. Blanch RMIT University
Prasad L. Polavarapu
Prasad L. Polavarapu Vanderbilt University
Neil W. Isaacs
Neil W. Isaacs University of Glasgow
Laurence A. Nafie
Laurence A. Nafie Syracuse University
Alan Cooper
Alan Cooper Charles Sturt University
Stewart F. Parker
Stewart F. Parker Rutherford Appleton Laboratory
Göran Widmalm
Göran Widmalm Stockholm University
Andrew J. Doig
Andrew J. Doig University of Manchester
Wuzong Zhou
Wuzong Zhou University of St Andrews

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