Ikuo Kushiro

His experiments on peridotites contributed significantly to the understanding of the formation of magma under mid-ocean ridges and island arcs.

After graduation with a bachelor of science degree, he was a PhD student under Hisashi Kuno and studied the petrology of igneous rocks.

After graduating with a doctorate in 1962, he worked for three years at the Carnegie Institution Geophysical Laboratory in Washington, D.C., specializing under the direction of J. Frank Schairer and Hatten Schuyler Yoder on experimental petrology.

The central subject of his work was the formation of basaltic magmas with special consideration of the role of water.

[13] The same year, from a meteorite collected in Antarctica, a newly discovered mineral from the pyroxene group was named kushiroite in his honor.