Frank D. Stacey

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Frank Donald Stacey (born August 21, 1929 in Essex ) is an Australian geophysicist .

Stacey studied at the University of London with a bachelor's degree in 1950 and a doctorate in 1953. As a post-doctoral student , he was from 1953 to 1956 at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver . From 1961 to 1964 he was a Gassiot Fellow of the Royal Society for Geomagnetism at the Meteorological Office Research Station of the University of Cambridge . He was from 1964 reader and 1971 to 1990 professor of applied physics at the University of Queensland . From 1997 he was with CSIRO Exploration and Mining .

He is known, among other things, for work on rock magnetism, where he expanded the work of Louis Néel in the 1950s. Here he introduced the term pseudo single domain (collective behavior of several domains as if they were a single one). He developed an equation of state for high pressures with applications to materials in the lower mantle and core of the earth and wrote a widely used textbook on the geophysics of the earth.

In 1968 he received a D.Sc. of the University of London. In 1979 he became a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Science . 1966/67 he was chairman of the Queensland branch of the Australian Institute of Physics. He is a fellow of the American Geophysical Union .

In 1994 he received the Louis Néel Medal .

Fonts

  • with Paul M. Davis: Physics of the Earth , Cambridge University Press, 4th edition 2008 (first Wiley, New York 1969)
  • with Jane Hodgkinson The Earth as a cradle of life , World Scientific 2013
  • with Subir Banerjee The physical principles of rock magnetism , Elsevier 1974
  • Editor with MS Paterson, A. Nicolas Anelasticity in the earth , American Geophysical Union / Geological Society of America 1981
  • with Paul M. Davis High pressure equation of state and applications to the lower mantle and core , Physics of Earth and Planetary Interiors, Volume 142, 2004, pp. 137-184
  • The K-primed approach to high pressure equations of state , Geophysical Journal International, Volume 143, 2000, 621-628
  • with OL Anderson Electrical and thermal conductivities of Fe-Ni-Si alloy under core conditions , Physics of Earth and Planetary Interiors, Volume 124, 2001, pp. 153-162
  • with DE Loper The thermal-boundary-layer-interpretation of D ,, and its role as a plume source , Physics of Earth and Planetary Interiors, Volume 33, 1983, pp. 45-55
  • A thermal model of the earth , Physics of Earth and Planetary Interiors, Volume 15, 1977, pp. 341-348
  • Finite strain, thermodynamics and the earth's core , Physics of Earth and Planetary Interiors, Volume 128, 2001, pp. 179-193
  • Thermoremanent magnetization (TRM) of multi-domain grains in igneous rocks , Philosophical Magazine, Volume 3, 1958, pp. 1391-1401
  • Theory of the magnetic properties of igneous rocks in alternating magnetic fields , Philosophical Magazine, Volume 6, 1961. pp. 1241-1260
  • The physical theory of rock magnetism , Advances in Physics, Vol. 12, 1963, pp. 45-133
  • Physical properties of the earth's core , Geophysical Surveys, Volume 1, 1972, pp. 99-119
  • with Banerjee The high field torque-meter method of measuring magnetic anisotropy of rocks , in DW Collinson, KM Creer, SK Runcorn (editor) Methods in Palaeomagnetism , Elsevier 1967, pp. 470-476
  • with RD Irvine Theory of melting. The thermodynamic basis of Lindemann's Law , Australian Journals of Physics, Volume 30, 1977, pp 631-640
  • On the role of Brownian Motion in the control of detrital remanent magnetization of sediments , Pure and Applied Geophysics, Volume 98, 1972, pp. 139-145

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  1. ↑ Laudatory speech
personal data
SURNAME Stacey, Frank D.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Stacey, Frank Donald (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Australian geophysicist
DATE OF BIRTH August 21, 1929
PLACE OF BIRTH Essex