Brian Kennett

Brian Leslie Norman Kennett (born May 7, 1948 ) is a mathematical physicist and seismologist . He is emeritus from the Australian National University .

Kennett graduated from the Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics Department of the University of Cambridge with a bachelor's degree in 1969, a master's degree in 1970, and a Ph.D. in 1973. in theoretical seismology. He worked as a research assistant at the University of California, San Diego in 1974/1975 , before moving again to the University of Cambridge in 1975, where he was last lecturer . In 1984 Kennett went to the Seismology and Earth Structure Department at the Australian National University (ANU). Research stays took him to the University of Tokyo in 2002 and to the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich in 2009 . From 2006 to 2010 he was director of the ANU's Research School of Earth Sciences .

Kennett is a Fellow of the American Geophysical Union (1988) and Honorary Fellow of the Royal Astronomical Society (1996). From 1999 to 2003 he was President of the International Association of Seismology and Physics of the Earth's Interior .

Kennett was able to make significant contributions to the study of the internal structures of the earth . His theoretical work on the shape of seismograms and their application (e.g. seismic tomography ) contributed to the exploration of the earth's mantle, especially Australia. He developed comprehensive models of the speed of propagation of seismic waves that serve as the basis for determining the epicenter of an earthquake , including the IASP91 model and the AK135 model.

Awards

• 1972 Smith Prize of the University of Cambridge
• 1981 Adams Prize from the University of Cambridge and St John's College
• 1994 member of the Australian Academy of Sciences
• 2004 Humboldt Research Prize from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation
• 2005 Jaeger Medal from the Australian Academy of Science
• 2006 Murchison Medal from the Geological Society of London
• 2007 Beno Gutenberg Medal of the European Geosciences Union (EGU)
• 2008 Gold Medal from the Royal Astronomical Society
• 2008 member of the Royal Society
• 2011 Matthew Flinders Medal and Lecture at the Australian Academy of Science
• 2017 Inge Lehmann Medal of the American Geophysical Union
• 2019 Officer of the Order of Australia

Web links

• Professor Brian Kennett at the Australian National University (anu.edu.au)
• BLN Kennett at the Research School of Earth Sciences at the Australian National University (anu.edu.au)
• Kennett, Brian Leslie Norman (1948–) at the Encyclopedia of Australian Science (eoas.info)
• Brian Kennett at ResearchGate (researchgate.net)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ June Barrow-Green: 'A Corrective to the Spirit of too Exclusively Pure Mathematics': Robert Smith (1689-1768) and his Prizes at Cambridge University. In: Annals of Science. 56, 2010, p. 271, doi : 10.1080 / 000337999296418 .
2. ^ Professor Brian Kennett - Australian Academy of Science. In: science.org.au. Retrieved July 29, 2017 . 
3. ^ Jaeger Medal - Australian Academy of Science. In: science.org.au. Retrieved August 1, 2017 . 
4. ^ The Geological Society of London - Murchison Medal. In: geolsoc.org.uk. August 24, 2016. Retrieved July 29, 2017 . 
5. ↑ EGU. In: egu.eu. Retrieved July 29, 2017 . 
6. ^ Gold Medal Winners of the Royal Astronomical Society (PDF, 308 kB); Retrieved July 29, 2017.
7. ↑ Brian Kennett. In: royalsociety.org. Retrieved July 29, 2017 . 
8. ↑ 2011 awardees - Australian Academy of Science. In: science.org.au. Retrieved July 29, 2017 . 
9. ^ American Geophysical Union Announces Recipients of the 2017 Union Medals, Awards and Prizes. In: news.agu.org. July 20, 2017, accessed July 29, 2017 .