David Gubbins

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David Gubbins (born May 31, 1947 ) is a British geophysicist who deals with the mechanism of the earth's magnetic field and theoretical geophysics (seismology).

Gubbins made in 1968 graduated as a geophysicist at the Trinity College of Cambridge University and was at in 1972 Edward Bullard doctorate. As a post-doctoral student he was at the University of Colorado , the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the University of California, Los Angeles , where he was also Assistant Professor from 1974 to 1976 (he worked there with Charles R. Carrigan ). From 1976 he was back in Cambridge, where he became a professor and fellow of Churchill College. Since 1989 he has been a professor at Leeds University . In 2000/2001 he was at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography.

He dealt with many aspects of the dynamics of the earth's magnetic field and is considered one of the leading experts in this field.

In 1996 he became a Fellow of the Royal Society . He is a foreign member of the Norwegian Academy of Sciences (2005), honorary member of the European Geosciences Union (EGU, 2008), fellow of the Institute of Physics (1996) and the American Geophysical Union (AGU, 1985). He received the Gold Medal of the Royal Astronomical Society , the Murchison Medal in 1999 , the Fleming Medal of the AGU, the Love Medal (2007) and the Arthur Holmes Medal (2009) of the EGU. In 2006 he received the Chree Medal (now called Appleton Medal) from the Institute of Physics.

Fonts

  • Theories of geomagnetic and solar dynamos, Reviews of Geophysics and Space Physics, Volume 12, 1974, pp. 137-154
  • The Earth's magnetic field, Contemporary Physics, Volume 25, 1984, pp. 269-290
  • with Charles R. Carrigan: How is the Earth's Magnetic Field Created?, Spectrum of Science, April 1979
  • with Jeremy Bloxham: The Evolution of the Earth's Magnetic Field, Spectrum of Science, February 1990
  • Editor with Emilio Herrero-Bervera Encyclopedia of geomagnetism and palaeomagnetism , Springer 2007 (various articles from it are from him: Core-based inversions of the main geomagnetic field, Periodic Dynamos, D,, and F layers, symmetry properties of geodynamo, dimensional analysis and time scales of geodynamo, inner core tangent cylinders, time averaged paleomagnetic field and various biographies)
  • Time series analysis and inverse theory for geophysicists, Cambridge University Press 2004
  • Seismology and plate tectonics, Cambridge University Press 1990

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SURNAME Gubbins, David
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British geophysicist
DATE OF BIRTH May 31, 1947