John G. Sclater

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John George Sclater (born June 17, 1940 in Edinburgh ) is a Scottish-born American geophysicist.

Sclater is the son of a doctor and studied at the University of Edinburgh (Bachelor in 1962) and the University of Cambridge , where he received his PhD in geophysics in 1966 with Edward Bullard . During this time he came into contact with current research on plate tectonics , which was beginning to take hold.

He had been at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography in San Diego since 1965 , initially with a grant from the National Science Foundation, where he (at the invitation of Robert L. Fisher ) took part in expeditions with the research vessel RV Argo in the Indian Ocean. From 1967 he was Assistant Research Geophysicist and involved in the Ocean Heat Flow program of the Scripps Institute . In 1968 he invited his former Cambridge roommate Dan McKenzie , who had published a pioneering paper on the mechanism of plate tectonics in 1967, on an expedition to the Indian Ocean, which led to a joint publication on the plate tectonic history of the Indian Ocean and to both inclusion in the Royal Society.

From 1972 he was an associate professor and later professor of marine geophysics and oceanography at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). From 1981 to 1983 he was director of the joint oceanography program of the Woods Hole Institute and MIT. In 1983 he became Professor of Geology at the University of Texas at Austin , where he was also the Associate Director of the Institute of Geophysics. From 1991 he was Professor of Geophysics at the Scripps Institute at the University of California, San Diego .

In 1985 he received the Walter H. Bucher Medal from the American Geophysical Union and in 1979 the Rosenstiel Award in Oceanography. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society and, since 1989, the National Academy of Sciences .

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  • with Christopher Tapscott History of the Atlantic , Spectrum of Science, August 1979

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  1. ↑ Date of birth and career dates from American Men and Women of Science , Thomson Gale 2004
personal data
SURNAME Sclater, John G.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Sclater, John George (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Scottish-American geophysicist
DATE OF BIRTH June 17, 1940
PLACE OF BIRTH Edinburgh