Thomas H. Jordan
Thomas Hillman "Tom" Jordan (born October 8, 1948 in Coco Solo , Panama Canal Zone ) is an American geophysicist . He deals with earthquakes , the structure of the earth and geodynamics . Research areas are the formation and development of continents , the dynamics of the earth's mantle and the scientifically based prediction of natural disasters .
Jordan earned a Bachelor's (1969), Master's (1970), and Ph.D. from the California Institute of Technology. (1972 in geophysics and applied mathematics ). Also in 1972 he received a first professorship (Assistant Professor) at Princeton University , in 1975 at the University of California, San Diego and the Scripps Institution of Oceanography . In 1977 he became an associate professor there , and in 1982 he was given a full professorship. In 1980 he became a research fellow of the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation ( Sloan Research Fellow ). In 1984 he moved to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology , where he was head of the Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences Department from 1988 to 1989 . Since 2000 he has been a professor at the University of Southern California and director of the Southern California Earthquake Center there .
Together with John P. Grotzinger , Jordan publishes the new editions of the widely used geology textbook Understanding Earth by Raymond Siever and Frank Press . In 2014 he was one of the most cited geoscientists worldwide. It published around 250 scientific publications (as of December 2017) and has an h-index of 83 (as of July 2018).
Awards (selection)
- 1983 James B. Macelwane Medal from the American Geophysical Union
- 1983 George P. Woollard Award from the Geological Society of America
- 1996 member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
- 1998 member of the National Academy of Sciences
- 2002 member of the American Philosophical Society
- 2005 Inge Lehmann Medal from the American Geophysical Union
- 2012 Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science
Web links
- Tom Jordan and curriculum vitae (PDF, 395 kB) at the University of Southern California (usc.edu)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Thomson Reuters - Highly Cited Research - Geosciences ( Memento of May 10, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ Thomas H Jordan - Google Scholar Citations. In: scholar.google.de. Retrieved December 23, 2017 .
- ^ Thomas H. Jordan - Honors Program (1). In: honors.agu.org. Accessed December 23, 2017 .
- ↑ Book of Members 1780 – present, Chapter J. (PDF; 354 kB) In: American Academy of Arts and Sciences (amacad.org). Accessed December 23, 2017 .
- ↑ Thomas Jordan. In: nasonline.org. Retrieved December 23, 2017 .
- ↑ Dr. Thomas H. Jordan. In: search.amphilsoc.org. Retrieved December 23, 2017 .
- ^ Thomas H. Jordan - Honors Program (2). In: honors.agu.org. Accessed December 23, 2017 .
- ↑ Jordan, Thomas. In: aaas.org. December 1, 2016, accessed December 23, 2017 .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Jordan, Thomas H. |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Jordan, Thomas Hillman; Jordan, Thomas; Jordan, Tom |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American geophysicist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 8, 1948 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Coco Solo , Panama Canal Zone |