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Stephen J. Mojzsis

Stephen J. Mojzsis

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Earth Science
Hungary
2025

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Earth Science

D-Index
52
Citations
10366
World Ranking
3031
National Ranking
198

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2025 - Research.com Earth Science in Hungary Leader Award

Overview

Stephen J. Mojzsis is affiliated with the Konkoly Observatory in Hungary. Their research primarily focuses on Physics and Astronomy as well as Earth and Planetary Sciences, with particular attention to Astronomy and Astrophysics, Geophysics, Paleontology, Environmental Chemistry, and Geochemistry and Petrology.

The scientist's work covers a range of topics in Astro and Planetary Science, Geological and Geochemical Analysis, Stellar, planetary, and galactic studies, Paleontology and Stratigraphy of Fossils, Origins and Evolution of Life, Methane Hydrates and Related Phenomena, and Geochemistry and Elemental Analysis.

Stephen J. Mojzsis has published multiple papers in diverse venues. Frequent publication platforms include ChemSystemsChem, arXiv (Cornell University), Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Lithos, and Astronomy and Astrophysics.

Recent papers authored or co-authored by Mojzsis include:

  • The partitioning of the inner and outer Solar System by a structured protoplanetary disk, 2020, Nature Astronomy
  • Supply of phosphate to early Earth by photogeochemistry after meteoritic weathering, 2020, Nature Geoscience
  • Catalytic Synthesis of Polyribonucleic Acid on Prebiotic Rock Glasses, 2022, Astrobiology
  • Reappraisal of purported ca. 3.7 Ga stromatolites from the Isua Supracrustal Belt (West Greenland) from detailed chemical and structural analysis, 2020, Earth and Planetary Science Letters
  • Plausible Constraints on the Range of Bulk Terrestrial Exoplanet Compositions in the Solar Neighborhood, 2023, The Astrophysical Journal

The frequent co-authors associated with Mojzsis's research include:

  • Mike Zawaski
  • Haiyang Wang
  • Nigel M. Kelly
  • Ramon Brasser
  • Claire Nichols

Best Publications

  • Evidence for life on Earth before 3,800 million years ago.

    S. J. Mojzsis;G. Arrhenius;K. D. McKeegan;T. M. Harrison

  • Oxygen-isotope Evidence From Ancient Zircons for Liquid Water at the Earth's Surface 4,300 Myr Ago

    Stephen J. Mojzsis;Stephen J. Mojzsis;T. Mark Harrison;Robert T. Pidgeon

  • Heterogeneous Hadean Hafnium: Evidence of Continental Crust at 4.4 to 4.5 Ga

    T. M. Harrison;T. M. Harrison;Janne Blichert-Toft;W. Müller;W. Müller;Framcis Albarede

  • Aerobic bacterial pyrite oxidation and acid rock drainage during the Great Oxidation Event

    Kurt O. Konhauser;Stefan V. Lalonde;Noah J. Planavsky;Ernesto Pecoits

  • Microbial habitability of the Hadean Earth during the late heavy bombardment

    Oleg Abramov;Stephen J. Mojzsis

  • Mass-independent isotope effects in Archean (2.5 to 3.8 Ga) sedimentary sulfides determined by ion microprobe analysis

    S.J. Mojzsis;C.D. Coath;J.P. Greenwood;K.D. McKeegan

  • Recognition of ≥3850 Ma water-lain sediments in West Greenland and their significance for the early Archaean Earth

    Allen P. Nutman;Stephen J. Mojzsis;Clark R.L. Friend

  • Composition and structure of microbial communities from stromatolites of Hamelin Pool in Shark Bay, Western Australia.

    Dominic Papineau;Jeffrey J. Walker;Stephen J. Mojzsis;Norman R. Pace

  • Constraints on Hadean zircon protoliths from oxygen isotopes, Ti‐thermometry, and rare earth elements

    Dustin Trail;Dustin Trail;Stephen J. Mojzsis;T. Mark Harrison;T. Mark Harrison;Axel K. Schmitt

  • Hafnium isotope evidence from Archean granitic rocks for deep-mantle origin of continental crust

    Martin Guitreau;Janne Blichert-Toft;Hervé Martin;Stephen J. Mojzsis;Stephen J. Mojzsis

  • Multiple sulfur isotopes from Paleoproterozoic Huronian interglacial sediments and the rise of atmospheric oxygen

    Dominic Papineau;Stephen J. Mojzsis;Axel K. Schmitt

  • Establishment of a 3.83-Ga magmatic age for the Akilia tonalite (southern West Greenland)

    Stephen J Mojzsis;T.Mark Harrison

  • Identification of chemical sedimentary protoliths using iron isotopes in the > 3750 Ma Nuvvuagittuq supracrustal belt, Canada

    Nicolas Dauphas;Nicole L. Cates;Stephen J. Mojzsis;Vincent Busigny

  • Cobalt and marine redox evolution

    Elizabeth D. Swanner;Noah J. Planavsky;Stefan V. Lalonde;Leslie J. Robbins

  • Pre-3750 Ma supracrustal rocks from the Nuvvuagittuq supracrustal belt, northern Québec

    N.L. Cates;S.J. Mojzsis

  • Vestiges of a beginning: Clues to the emergent biosphere recorded in the oldest known sedimentary rocks

    Stephen J. Mojzsis;T. Mark

  • The Martian subsurface as a potential window into the origin of life

    Joseph R. Michalski;Tullis C. Onstott;Stephen J. Mojzsis;Stephen J. Mojzsis;Stephen J. Mojzsis;John Mustard

  • The composition of Earth's oldest iron formations: The Nuvvuagittuq Supracrustal Belt (Québec, Canada)

    Aleksandra M. Mloszewska;Ernesto Pecoits;Nicole L. Cates;Stephen J. Mojzsis;Stephen J. Mojzsis

  • Tungsten isotope composition of the Acasta Gneiss Complex

    Matthias Willbold;S. J. Mojzsis;Hart Chen;Tim Elliott

  • Inherited 142Nd anomalies in Eoarchean protoliths

    Antoine S.G. Roth;Bernard Bourdon;Stephen J. Mojzsis;Stephen J. Mojzsis;Mathieu Touboul

  • The Early Earth: Physical, Chemical and Biological Development

    Stephen J. Mojzsis

Frequent Co-Authors

Janne Blichert-Toft
Janne Blichert-Toft École Normale Supérieure de Lyon
T. Mark Harrison
T. Mark Harrison University of California, Los Angeles
Dominic Papineau
Dominic Papineau University College London
Stephanie C. Werner
Stephanie C. Werner University of Oslo
Kurt O. Konhauser
Kurt O. Konhauser University of Alberta
Shigeru Ida
Shigeru Ida Tokyo Institute of Technology
Wouter Bleeker
Wouter Bleeker Geological Survey of Canada
Kevin D. McKeegan
Kevin D. McKeegan University of California, Los Angeles
Christopher D. Coath
Christopher D. Coath University of Bristol
Axel K. Schmitt
Axel K. Schmitt Curtin University

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