David J. Dunlop

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David John Dunlop (born January 30, 1941 in Toronto ) is a Canadian geophysicist .

Dunlop studied geology at the University of Toronto with a bachelor's degree in 1963, a master's degree in 1964 and a doctorate in 1968. He was a post-doctoral student at the University of Tokyo and in 1969/70 at the University of Paris VI . In 1970 he became an assistant professor and in 1978 a professor at the University of Toronto.

He was visiting scholar at the Lunar Science Institute and the Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center in Houston (1972), at the University of Paris (1977/78), at the University of Leeds (1983), at the Soviet Academy of Sciences (1980, 1982) , 1988), at the Tokyo Institute of Technology (1989) and the University of Kyoto (1997, 2003), at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich (1990), at the CSIRO in Sydney (1992) and visiting professor at the University of Montpellier (1997 ) and Paris (2004).

He deals with the magnetism of rocks at normal and very high temperatures, micromagnetism (theory, computer calculations and observation of domain structures also with regard to basic physical research) and paleomagnetic clues for plate tectonics in the Precambrian .

In 1999 he received the Louis Néel Medal and the J. Tuzo Wilson Medal from the Canadian Geophysical Union. From 1983 to 1985 he was a Killam Research Fellow .

Dunlop is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada (1990) and a Fellow of the American Geophysical Union (1987). From 1985 to 1987 he was President of the Canadian Geophysical Union and from 1992 to 1994 President of the Geo- and Paleomagnetism Section of the American Geophysical Union.

He is married to the geophysicist Özden Özdemir.

Fonts

  • with Özden Özdemir Rock magnetism- Fundamentals and Frontiers , Cambridge University Press 1997
  • Editor Origin of thermoremanent magnetization: proceedings of AGU 1976 Fall annual meeting December 1976, San Francisco , Tokyo 1977

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Life data according to American Men and Women of Science , Thomson Gale 2004
  2. ↑ Laudatory speech
personal data
SURNAME Dunlop, David J.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Dunlop, David John (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Canadian geophysicist
DATE OF BIRTH January 30, 1941
PLACE OF BIRTH Toronto