Donald Wilhelms, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

    

Donald Wilhelms

American geologist

Date of Birth: 05-Jul-1930

Place of Birth: Los Angeles, California, United States

Profession: geologist

Zodiac Sign: Cancer


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About Donald Wilhelms

  • Don Edward Wilhelms (born July 5, 1930) is a former United States Geological Survey geologist who contributed to geologic mapping of the Earth's moon and to the geologic training of the Apollo astronauts.
  • He is the author of To a Rocky Moon: A Geologist's History of Lunar Exploration (1993), The geologic history of the Moon (1987), and he co-authored the Geologic Map of the Near Side of the Moon (1971) with John F.
  • McCauley.
  • Wilhelms also contributed to Apollo Over the Moon: A View from Orbit (NASA SP-362).
  • He has also contributed to the study of Mars (including Mariner 9), Mercury, and Ganymede.

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