Martin Bott

Martin Harold Phillips Bott FRS ( born 1926 ) is Emeritus Professor of the Faculty of Geosciences at the University of Durham. He is a vice president of the Association of Christians in Science. In 1992 he received the Wollaston Medal of the Geological Society of London.

Scientific career

Bott worked throughout his academic career at the University of Durham. In 1954 he began there as Turner & Newall Research Fellow. In 1956 he received an appointment as Lecturer in Geophysics, 1963 was promoted to Reader in Geophysics and appointed in 1966 as Professor of Geophysics. He held this position until his retirement in 1988, only in 1970 interrupted by a year abroad at the Lamont - Doherty Geological Observatory of Columbia University. In 1976 he was appointed a Fellow of the Royal Society and was awarded in 1992 the Wollaston Medal of the Geological Society.

Research

Bott dealt first with the interpretation of magnetic and gravimetric anomalies in England, including in Devon and Cornwall as well as in the Eastern Alps. In the late 1950s he began studies on the mechanism of geological faults, and published work on various problems in relation to the earth's crust.

In the 1960s, he published papers on the use of digital computation methods for the solution of geophysical problems and further work on the structure of the earth's crust, and regional geophysical surveys in England and Ireland. In the early 1970s he published his textbook The interior of the earth, in which he summarized the current knowledge about the structure of the earth. In addition to theoretical work on the interpretation of magnetic and gravimetric anomalies over the next few years it appeared that further work on regional geophysical surveys, such as the Faroe Islands, South Greenland or the Lesser Antilles. Even after his retirement, he remained faithful to his research and published until recently numerous scientific papers.

Publications

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