Ronald Oxburgh, Baron Oxburgh

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Ronald Oxburgh, Baron Oxburgh

Ernest Ronald Oxburgh, Baron Oxburgh KBE (born November 2, 1934 ) is a British geologist , mineralogist , petrologist , university professor and politician . He has been a Life Peer member of the House of Lords since 1999 and was President of Queens' College at the University of Cambridge between 1982 and 1988 .

Life

Professorships at the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge

After attending school, Oxburgh completed a degree in geology and, after completing his studies in 1960, became a demonstrator and lecturer in geology at the University of Oxford , where he was a tutor at St Edmund Hall from 1964 to 1977 . Most recently from 1975 to 1978 he was first deputy and then dean of the Faculty of Physical Sciences there. He was also a visiting professor on several occasions and taught as such at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech, 1967 to 1968), at Cornell University (1967 to 1968 and 1973 to 1974) and at Stanford University (1973 to 1974).

In 1978 he moved to the University of Cambridge, where he became a Fellow at Trinity Hall and at the same time took over a professorship in mineralogy and petrology , where he taught until 1991. During this time he was also head of the Department of Geosciences between 1980 and 1988 and at the same time President of the Queens' College there from 1982 and 1988. Oxburgh, who chaired the Royal Society's Working Group on Geophysics Support from 1984 to 1985 , also served as chair of the University Geosciences Grants Committee from 1986 to 1987. After holding the Sherman Mills Fairchild Visiting Lecturer at Caltech between 1985 and 1986 , he was again visiting professor at Cornell University in 1986 and in 1987 also held the Allan V. Cox Visiting Professorship at Stanford University.

In addition to his teaching activities, he was chief scientific advisor to the Ministry of Defense between 1988 and 1993 and as such also chairman of the commission for the investigation of the security of nuclear weapons .

For his many years of service he was appointed Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire in 1992 and from then on carried the suffix "Sir".

He was then rector of Imperial College London from 1993 to 2001 . He also served as Chairman of the Inter-Agency Committee on Environment and Global Change between 1994 and 1997 and was also a board member of the Center for Defense Research from 1995 to 1997.

Member of the House of Lords

Oxburgh was raised to the nobility by a letters patent dated July 27, 1999 as a Life Peer entitled Baron Oxburgh, of Liverpool in the County of Merseyside . Shortly thereafter took place on 12 October 1999 its introduction ( Introduction ) as a member of the House of Lords .

In the upper house he belongs to the group of non-party peers, the so-called cross benchers . During his membership in the House of Lords, he was a member of the Science and Technology Committee from 1999 to 2005 and most recently chaired this committee between 2001 and 2005.

Since 2001 he has also been an honorary professor in the Department of Earth Sciences at the University of Cambridge. In the course of his professional activity, he also took on numerous functions in domestic and foreign institutions and organizations.

Academic awards and memberships

Oxburgh has received several honors for his services, including honorary doctorates from the University of Pierre and Marie Curie (1986), the University of Paris VII (1986), the University of Leicester (1990), Loughborough University (1991), the University of Edinburgh ( 1994), the University of Birmingham (1996), the University of Liverpool (1996), the University of Southampton (2003), the Lingnan University in Hong Kong (2006), the Liverpool John Moores University (2006), the University of Newcastle ( 2007), the University of Leeds (2009) and the University of Wyoming (2011). Oxburgh is a fellow of the Royal Society (1978), the Institution of Mechanical Engineers (1993) and the Royal Engineers (2000).

Oxburgh, who was President of the European Union for Geosciences from 1985 to 1987, is also an Honorary Fellow of Trinity Hall (1982), University College Oxford (1983), St Edmund Hall (1986), Queens' College Cambridge ( 1992) and the City and Guilds of London Institute (1996).

Oxburgh, who was one of the founding members of Academia Europaea in 1988 , is a corresponding member of the Federal Geological Institute in Vienna (1969), the Geological Society of America (1971), the Austrian Geological Society (1972), the American Geophysical Union (1981), the Academy of Sciences of Venezuela (1989), the Australian Academy of Science (1999), the German Academy of Natural Scientists Leopoldina (1994), the National Academy of Sciences (2001) and the American Philosophical Society (2005).

For his services he was also awarded the Lyell Fund Award of the Geological Society of London in 1969 , of which he was President from 2000 to 2002, and in 1979 the Bigsby Medal of the Geological Society of London and in 1995 the Sir Peter Kent Lektorat of this society. He was also Amigo de Venezuela in 1995 and at the same time holder of the Officer's Cross of the Ordre des Palmes Académiques . Most recently, he became an honorary citizen of Singapore in 2012 , having received the Singapore Medal for Public Merit in 2008.

Publications

  • The geology of the Eastern Alps , 1968

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Introduction of Baron Oxburgh ( Hansard, October 12, 1999)
personal data
SURNAME Oxburgh, Ronald, Baron Oxburgh
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Oxburgh, Ernest Ronald, Baron Oxburgh (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British geologist, mineralogist, petrologist, university professor and politician
DATE OF BIRTH November 2, 1934