Keith O'Nions
Sir Robert Keith O'Nions (born September 26, 1944 in Birmingham ) is a British geochemist , petrologist, mineralogist and geologist .
Keith O'Nions studied geology at the University of Nottingham and received his PhD from the University of Alberta with Roger D. Morton. As a post-doctoral student he was at the University of Oslo . From 1971 he taught geochemistry at the University of Oxford (first as a demonstrator, then a lecturer ), was Professor of Geology at Columbia University in 1975 and Royal Society Research Professor at the University of Cambridge in 1979 . From 1995 he was again a professor at Oxford, where he headed the Faculty of Earth Sciences from 1995 and was Professor of Physics and Chemistry of Minerals. In 1999 he was ennobled. From 2000 to 2004 he was Senior Scientific Advisor to the UK Department of Defense. He was then Senior Scientific Advisor in the Department of Commerce and Industry, later known as the Department for Innovation, University and Skills (and Director General for Science and Information there) and, from 2008, Director of the newly created Institute for Security Science and Technology at Imperial College London . From 2010 to 2014 he was President and Rector of Imperial College.
He deals with isotope geochemistry and mass spectrometry and has set up laboratories at Columbia University and Cambridge.
O'Nions is a Fellow of the Royal Society (1983), a member of the Norwegian Academy of Sciences (1980), the Academia Europaea and an Honorary Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering . In 2004 he received an honorary doctorate from Heriot-Watt University and is a total of eleven universities. He is a Fellow of the American Geophysical Union , the Institute of Physics and an Honorary Fellow of the Indian Academy of Sciences (1998) and a Fellow of the Indian National Science Academy (2001)
He received the Bigsby Medal in 1983, the James B. Macelwane Medal in 1979 , the Arthur Holmes Medal and the Lyell Medal in 1995 and the Urey Award in 2001 . In 1988 he was a Fairchild Scholar at Caltech .
He was a trustee and chairman of the Natural History Museum from 1996 to 2005 . From 1998 to 2000 he was a member of the Council of Science and Technology.
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| SURNAME | O'Nions, Keith |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | O'Nions, Robert Keith (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | British geochemist, petrologist, mineralogist and geologist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 26, 1944 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Birmingham |