Dan McKenzie (geophysicist)

Dan Peter McKenzie, CH ( born February 21, 1942 in Cheltenham ), is a professor of geophysics at the University of Cambridge.

McKenzie studied physics at King's College, University of Cambridge and turned in Edward Bullard of geophysics to. After eight months at the Scripps Oceanographic Institute in San Diego at Freeman Gilbert and Walter Munk he received his doctorate in 1966 in Cambridge. As a post - graduate student he was at Caltech and wrote in 1966 an early work on the mechanism of plate tectonics, followed by working with Robert Parker on the geometry of plate tectonics. His work with John G. Sclater on the plate tectonic development of the Indian Ocean brought two membership in the Royal Society. From 1969 he was a lecturer at Cambridge, where he was Reader in 1978 and later became a professor and head of the Bullard Laboratories. In the 1970s and then he turned to the mechanism of mantle convection and questions of formation of sedimentary basins and later the geology of the planets of the solar system.

He won the 1975 James B. Macelwane Medal and the 1981 Balzan Prize for Geology and Geophysics together with Drummond Hoyle Matthews and Frederick Vine. In 1983, he received the Alfred Wegener Medal of the European Union of Geosciences ( EUG). In 1990, the Japan Prize he was awarded in 2002 and the Crafoord Prize. In 2011 he was awarded the Copley Medal of the Royal Society, in 1983 the Wollaston Medal of the Geological Society of London and the 2001 William Bowie Medal of the American Geophysical Union. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society (1976). In 2000 he was made an honorary Doctor of Bristol University ( D.Sc. ). In 2003 he received the Order of the Companions of Honour.

Writings

In addition to the work cited above.

  • Speculations on the Consequences and Causes of plate motion, Geophysical Journal of the Royal Astronomical Society, Volume 18, 1969, pp. 1-32
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