Peter John Wyllie

Peter John Wyllie ( born February 8, 1930 in London ) is a British petrologist and former professor of geology at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech ). He is known for his contributions to the understanding of magmatism and author of two textbooks on magmatism and plate tectonics.

Life

After his basic training in the Royal Air Force barracks Padgate 1948 in Poulton -with- Fearnhead - Wyllie was awarded the Best Recruit Award - he completed his military service until 1949 as a radio operator ( radiotelephony operator) with the rank of First Class Aircraftsman. He was a boxer and heavyweight champion in 1949, the Royal Air Force in Scotland.

1952 to 1954 he participated in the British North Greenland Expedition under Jim Simpson, and studied physics and geology at the University of St Andrews afterwards. In 1952 he received a bachelor's degree in physics and geology, and in 1955 he passed the B.Sc. from the ceremony with First Class Honors in Geology and was then 1955/56, Assistant Lecturer in Geology in St. Andrews. From 1956 he was at the University of Pennsylvania, where he was an Assistant Professor in 1958 and (after a stopover 1960/61, at the University of Leeds ) 1961 Associate Professor and 1962/63 Head ( Acting Head ) of the Department of Geochemistry and Mineralogy. In 1958 he was Ph.D. specialist Geology in St. Andrews. Between 1959 and 1961 he taught Experimental Petrology at the University of Leeds, before he returned as Professor of Petrology at the Pennsylvania State University. In 1965 he went to the University of Chicago, where he was Professor of Petrology and Geochemistry until 1983. Then he was up to his retirement in 1999 bGeologieprofessor at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech ), where he was 1983 to 1987 Executive Board of the Faculty of Geosciences and Planetary Sciences and emeritus in 1999.

It has both the British and U.S. citizenship. Wyllie has been married since 1956 and has three children.

Work

He devoted many of his scientific contributions to the understanding of magmatism, especially by experimental work on petrology of magmas and their volatiles. In the early 1970s Wyllie wrote two widely used textbooks, The Dynamic Earth (1971) and The Way the Earth Works ( 1976), summarizing the new understanding of magmatism and plate tectonics. He looked at the section Geosciences in the Encyclopædia Britannica with, and has written an overview of this research field for the second part of the Britannica descendant Propaedia.

Honors and Awards

The National Academy of Sciences ( 1981) and the Royal Society (1984 ) elected him a member, he is also a Fellow of the Geological Society of America, the American Geophysical Union, Mineralogical Society of America, an honorary member of the Mineralogical Society of London, Geological Society of Edinburgh and of the Geological Society and a member of the Russian Academy of Sciences, the Indian National Science Academy and the Chinese Academy of Sciences. Several times he was President of Scientific Unions, so 1977/78 of the Mineralogical Society of America, 1986 to 1990 by the International Mineralogical Association and in 1995-99 the International Union of Geodesy and Geophysics.

He was honored with numerous awards, including

  • British Polar Medal ( Polar Medal ), 1954
  • Wollaston Medal, Geological Society of London, 1982
  • The Quantrell Award for outstanding achievements in the student teaching, 1979
  • Abraham Gottlob Werner Medal of the German Mineralogical Society, 1987
  • Roebling Medal of the Mineralogical Society of America, 1991
  • Leopold von Buch- plaque 2001

In 1974 he received an honorary doctorate (D. Sc.), University of St. Andrews.

Writings

  • A geological reconnaissance through South Germania country, Copenhagen, CA Reitzel, 1957 ( Greenland expedition )
  • With Lister The geomorphology of Dronning Louise Land, Copenhagen, CA Reitzel 1957
  • Publisher Ultramafic and related rocks, Wiley 1967
  • The dynamic earth: a textbook in geosciences, Wiley 1971
  • The way the earth works: an introduction to the new global geology and its revolutionary development, Wiley 1976
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