Geoffrey Eglinton

Geoffrey Eglinton , FRS (born November 1, 1927 in Cardiff - † March 11, 2016 ) was a British chemist and Professor and Senior Research Fellow in Earth Sciences at Bristol University . Eglinton was one of the first researchers to combine organic chemistry with geochemistry , and thus became a co-founder of organic geochemistry .

Eglinton received his PhD in 1951 from Ewart Jones at the University of Manchester

In 1997 he won the Royal Medal for research into the chemical processes involved in the formation and migration of petroleum . The elucidation of these processes was of great importance for the petroleum industry. In the same year, Eglinton also received the Urey Award . In 2004 he was awarded the Wollaston Medal and in 2008 he was awarded the Dan David Prize for his studies on chemical fossils with Ellen Mosley-Thompson and Lonnie G. Thompson .

literature

• Katherine H. Freeman: Geoffrey Eglinton (1927-2016). In: Nature . Volume 532, No. 7599, 2016, p. 314, doi: 10.1038 / 532314a

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Emeritus Professor Geoffrey Eglinton, award-winning chemist, dies
2. ↑ biographical data, publications and Academic pedigree of Geoffrey Eglinton at academictree.org, accessed on 31 January 2018th
3. ^ Royal recent winners . The Royal Society , archived from the original on January 1, 2014 ; accessed on October 23, 2018 (English, original website no longer available).  
4. ↑ Wollaston Medal . The Geological Society of London , archived from the original on August 19, 2010 ; accessed on January 23, 2016 (English, original website no longer available).  
5. ↑ Bristol professor wins $ 1million prize . Retrieved September 7, 2010.
6. ^ Geoffrey Eglinton . Dan-David Prize , archived from the original on March 3, 2012 ; accessed on January 23, 2016 (English, original website no longer available).