Paul Tapponnier
Paul Tapponnier (born January 6, 1947 in Annecy ) is a French geologist.
Tapponnier studied at the École Nationale Supérieure des Mines de Paris with a degree in 1970. He then went to the Universite du Languedoc in Montpellier and from 1972 to 1975 at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). In 1978 he received his doctorate in Montpellier. He was then at the Institut de Physique du Globe in Paris in the tectonics department . Since 1985 he has also been a visiting scientist at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory and in 2000 he was a visiting professor at Caltech . Since 2009 he has been group leader in tectonics at Nanyang University of Technology in Singapore (EOS, Earth Observatory of Singapore).
Tapponnier was one of the first to recognize the possibilities of satellite exploration ( Landsat ) for tectonics in the 1970s . In particular, he dealt, partly with Peter Molnar from MIT, with the tectonics of Asia, which is mainly characterized by the collision of the Indian plate.
In 1984 he received the CNRS silver medal , in 1985 the Alfred Wegener Medal , in 1990 the Great Science Prize of the City of Paris and in 2001 the Lyell Medal .
He is an Honorary Fellow of the Geological Society of America (1994) and a Fellow of the American Geophysical Union (1994). He is also a member of the National Academy of Sciences (2005), the Académie des Sciences and Knight of the Legion of Honor (1991).
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Individual evidence
- ^ Molnar, Tapponnier Cenozoic tectonics of Asia: Effect of a continental collision , Science, Volume 189, 1975, pp. 419-425. Molnar, Tapponnier Active tectonics of Tibet , Journal of Geophysical Research B: Solid Earth, Volume 83, 1978, pp. 5361-5375. Molnar, Tapponnier A possible dependence of tectonic strength on the age of the crust in Asia , Earth and Planetary Science Letters, Volume 52, 1981, pp. 107-114. Tapponnier, Molnar Active faulting and Cenozoic tectonics of the Tien Shan, Mongolia and Baykal regions , Journal Geophysical Research, Volume 84, B7, 1979, pp. 3425 - 3459, PDF file ( Memento of the original dated June 6, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . Molnar, Tapponnier The collision between India and Eurasia , Scientific American, Volume 236, 1977, No. 12, pp. 30-41
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| SURNAME | Tapponnier, Paul |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French geologist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 6, 1947 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Annecy |