Edward Anders (born June 21, 1926) is a Latvian-born American chemist and emeritus professor of chemistry at the University of Chicago.
Anders and his mother evaded Nazi annihilation by pretending that she was an Aryan foundling raised by Jews, until they were able to flee Latvia near the end of World War II.
[5] In August 1948, Anders appeared as a prosecution witness at the Nuremberg High Command Trial, where he gave evidence of German soldiers carrying out lootings and shooting Jewish civilians in Liepaja during 1941.
[11] In 1973, Anders received the NASA Exceptional Scientific Achievement Medal,[1] acknowledging his work analyzing multiple batches of lunar samples brought back to Earth by the Apollo project.
"[13] Subsequent research by Anders and coworkers established the presence of diamonds,[14] silicon carbide and graphite in meteorites' interstellar grains.
"[16] In the 1980s, Anders and colleagues published evidence in Science[17] and Nature[18] of catastrophic fires 65 million years ago, caused by a giant meteorite crash in the Gulf of Mexico.
Their article, which appeared in Holocaust & Genocide Studies, used Latvian, German, Israeli and other records to document the fate of each of Liepaja's 7,140 Jewish residents during Nazi Germany's occupation.