Richard Gilbert West

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Richard Gilbert West (born May 31, 1926 ) is a British geologist (Quaternary geology) and paleobotanist ( palynology ).

Life

After military service in India during World War II , he studied botany and geology at Clare College , Cambridge. In 1954 he received his doctorate and became a Fellow of Clare College. Harry Godwin's dissertation was on the palynology and stratigraphy of lake sediments in Hoxne in Suffolk from the mid- Pleistocene . In 1960 he became a lecturer in the Faculty of Botany and in 1977 a professor. In 1991 he retired.

In 1968 he became a Fellow of the Royal Society . He received the Bigsby Medal in 1969 , the Lyell Medal in 1988 and the Albrecht Penck Medal in 1988 . In 1979 he was elected an honorary member of the Royal Irish Academy . In 1999 he became an external member of the Finnish Academy of Sciences .

Fonts

  • Plant life of the quaternary cold stages evidence from the British Isles, Cambridge University Press 2000
  • Pleistocene geology and biology with especial reference to the British Isles, Wiley 1968
  • Pleistocene palaeoecology of central Norfolk: a study of environments through time, Cambridge University Press 2009
  • with JJ Donner: The glaciations of East Anglia and the East Midlands: a differentiation based on stone-orientation measurements of the tills, Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society, 112, 1956, pp. 69–91.
  • Editor with D. Walker: Studies in the vegetational history of the British Isles: essays in honor of Harry Godwin, Cambridge University Press 2009
  • Interglacial deposits at Bobbitshole, Ipswich, Philos. Transactions Royal Society, B, 241, 1957, 676
  • with BW Sparks: Late pleistocene deposits at Wretton, Norfolk, Philos. Transactions Royal Society, B, 258, 1970, 818

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Members: Richard G. West. Royal Irish Academy, accessed May 14, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME West, Richard Gilbert
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British geologist (Quaternary geology) and paleobotanist (palynology)
DATE OF BIRTH May 31, 1926