Dan McKenzie

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Dan Peter McKenzie , CH (born February 21, 1942 in Cheltenham ) is Professor Emeritus of Geophysics at Cambridge University .

life and work

McKenzie grew up in London and attended Westminster College. He studied physics and geology at King's College, Cambridge University and turned to geophysics with Edward Bullard . After eight months at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography in San Diego with Freeman Gilbert and Walter Munk , he received his doctorate in Cambridge in 1966. He was a post-doctoral student at Caltech and wrote an early paper on the mechanism of plate tectonics in 1966 , followed by a work with Robert Parker on the geometry of plate tectonics. His work with John G. Sclater on the plate tectonic development of the Indian Ocean earned both members of the Royal Society. From 1969 he was Assistant in Research and from 1975 Assistant Director of Research at Cambridge, where he became a Reader in 1979 and later Professor and Head of the Bullard Laboratory. In the 1970s and thereafter he turned to the mechanism of mantle convection and questions about the formation of sedimentary basins and later also the geology of the planets of the solar system. In 1984 he became a professor at Cambridge. In 1996 he became a Royal Society Research Professor.

He received the James B. Macelwane Medal in 1975 and the 1981 Balzan Prize for Geology and Geophysics with Drummond Hoyle Matthews and Frederick Vine . In 1983 he was awarded the Alfred Wegener Medal of the European Union of Geosciences (EUG). In 1990 he was awarded the Japan Prize and in 2002 the Crafoord Prize and he was awarded the Arthur L. Day Medal and the Gold Medal of the Royal Astronomical Society. In 2011 he received the Copley Medal of the Royal Society and he received their Royal Medal , 1983 the Wollaston Medal of the Geological Society of London and 2001 the William Bowie Medal of the American Geophysical Union. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society (1976), the National Academy of Sciences (1988) and the Indian National Sciences Academy. In 2000 he received an Honorary Doctorate from Bristol University (D.Sc.) and an Honorary Doctorate from the University of Chicago. In 2003 he received the Order of the Companions of Honor . Since 1990 he has been a member of the Academia Europaea .

In 1971 he married Indira Margaret Misra, with whom he has one child. He is a hobby gardener.

Fonts

In addition to the works cited above.

  • Speculations on the consequences and causes of plate motion , Geophysical Journal of the Royal Astronomical Society, Volume 18, 1969, pp. 1-32
  • Earth's Mantle , Scientific American, September 1983
  • with RK O'Nions: Mantle reservoirs and ocean island basalts, Nature, Volume 301, 1983, SS 299-231
  • The geometry of propagating rifts, Earth and Planetary Science Letters, Volume 77, 1986, pp. 176-186
  • Extraction of magma from the crust and mantle, Earth and Planetary Science Letters, Volume 74, 1985, pp. 81-91

literature

  • Alexander E. Gates: Earth Scientists from A to Z, Facts on File, 2003

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ D. McKenzie: The viscosity of the lower mantle. In: J Geophys. Res. Vol. 71, 1966, pp. 3995-4010.
  2. ^ McKenzie, Parker The North Pacific: an example of tectonics on a sphere. In: Nature. Volume 216, 1967, pp. 1276-1280. Jason Morgan at Princeton came to similar conclusions at the same time.
  3. ^ McKenzie, J. Sclater: The evolution of the Indian Ocean since the late Cretaceous. In: Geophys. JR astr. Soc. Volume 25, 1971, pp. 437-528.
  4. ↑ B. Parsons, McKenzie: Mantle convection and the thermal structure of plates. In: J. Geophys. Res. Vol. 83, 1976, pp. 4485-4496; McKenzie, J. Roberts, NO Weiss: Convection in the Earth's mantle: towards a numerical simulation. In: J. Fluid Mech. Vol. 62, 1974, pp. 465-538. McKenzie in Science Citation Classics on the essay, pdf
  5. ^ McKenzie: Some Remarks on the Development of Sedimentary Basins. In: Earth Planetary Science Letters. Volume 40, 1978, pp. 25-32. McKenzie model
personal data
SURNAME McKenzie, Dan
ALTERNATIVE NAMES McKenzie, Dan Peter (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British geophysicist at Cambridge University
DATE OF BIRTH February 21, 1942
PLACE OF BIRTH Cheltenham