Frederick Vine
Frederick John Vine (born June 17, 1939 in Chiswick , London ) is a British geologist and geophysicist .
Life
Vine studied science at Cambridge University (St. John's College) with a bachelor's degree in 1962 and a doctorate in marine geophysics in 1965. In 1967 he became an assistant professor at Princeton University .
Vine was a reader from 1970 and professor at the University of East Anglia from 1974 to 1998 . From 1977 to 1980 and 1993 to 1998 he was dean there. Until 2008 he was a professor emeritus at this university .
Act
Vine made significant contributions to the theory of plate tectonics . Together with Drummond Matthews , he interpreted the stripes on both sides of the mid-ocean ridges that were noticed in paleomagnetic investigations as a result of the formation and spreading of the ocean floors. That was also the subject of his dissertation at Cambridge with Matthews. They published about it in Nature 1963. The Canadian Lawrence Morley (1920–2013) also pursued this idea of proving the spreading of the ocean floors independently . The concept of the spreading of the ocean floors was known at that time by Harry Hammond Hess and Robert S. Dietz ( Continent and Ocean Basin Evolution by Spreading of the Sea Floor , Nature, Volume 190, 1961, pp. 854-857) and the paleomagnetic foundations came from the work of Allan V. Cox and his colleagues.
Further work concerned the ophiolites in the Troodos Mountains of southern Cyprus (with EM Moores), the history of the earth's magnetic field (with RA Livermore), and electrical conductivity of rocks from the lower earth's crust (with RG Ross).
Awards
- 1968 Arthur L. Day Medal 1981 Balzan Prize
- 1971 Bigsby Medal
- 1973 Chapman Medal of the Royal Astronomical Society
- 1974 Fellow of the Royal Society .
- 1982 Hughes Medal
- 2007 Prestwich Medal of the Geological Society of London
Fonts
- with Matthews Magnetic Anomalies Over Oceanic Ridge , Nature, Volume 199, 1963, pp. 947-949
- Philip Kearey and Frederick J. Vine: Global tectonics . 1990, 2nd edition 1996, 3rd edition 2009.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Biography at The Royal Society . Retrieved January 22, 2020
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Vine, Frederick |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Vine, Frederick John (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | British geologist and geophysicist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 17, 1939 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Chiswick , London |