Hiroko Nagahara
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Hiroko Nagahara (Japanese: 永原 裕子, born 1952) is a Japanese cosmochemist and astromineralogist whose research studies the chemical composition and formation of chondrules, the molten mineral droplets that accrete to form asteroids and meteoroids. She is a fellow of the Earth–Life Science Institute of the Tokyo Institute of Technology, a professor emerita of Tokyo University,[1] and a former president of the Meteoritical Society.[2]
