caption death_date death_place birth_place nationality fields workplaces birth_date spouse article_title name
wolf book -rrb- v. vishniac from carl sagan 's cosmos -lrb- 10 december 1973 asgard range , wright valley , antarctica berlin , germany american microbiology astrobiology university of rochester 22 april 1922 helen vishniac wolf v. vishniac
 wolf v. vishniac
wolf v. vishniac

wolf vladimir vishniac -lrb- april 22 , 1922 -- december 10 , 1973 -rrb- was an american microbiologist , son of roman vishniac .
educated at brooklyn college and stanford university , he was a professor of biology at the university of rochester .
he died on a research trip to the antarctic attempting to retrieve equipment in a crevice .
the crater vishniac on mars is named in his honor .
wolf vishniac contributed greatly to the search for life on mars by developing a special miniature laboratory that could be transported to that planet , known as the `` wolf trap '' .
this research was supported by a nasa grant started in 1959 , the very first ever for the `` biological sciences . ''
