Flashcards: British geophysicists

Drummond Hoyle Matthews FRS (5 February 1931 – 20 July 1997) was a British marine geologist and geophysicist and a key contributor to the theory of plate tectonics.

Kirsty McCabe is a Scottish weather forecaster and presenter, and the Senior Meteorologist at The Weather Channel, based at the UK office in London.

Professor Neville Brown (born 8 April 1932) is a Doctor of Science in Applied Geophysics.

Michael James Bickle FRS is a British geologist, and professor at University of Cambridge.

Stanley Keith Runcorn FRS (19 November 1922 – 5 December 1995) was a British physicist whose paleomagnetic reconstruction of the relative motions of Europe and America revived the theory of continental drift and was a major contribution to plate tectonics.

Sir James Hall of Dunglass, 4th Baronet FRS FRSE (17 January 1761 – 23 June 1832) was a Scottish geologist and geophysicist, born at Dunglass, East Lothian, to Sir John Hall, 3rd Baronet (died 1776), by his spouse, Magdalen (died 1763) daughter of Sir Robert Pringle, 3rd Baronet, of Stichill, Roxburghshire.

Herbert Eric Huppert (born 26 November 1943) FRS is an Australian-born geophysicist living in Britain.

Edward A. "Ted" Irving, CM FRSC FRS (27 May 1927 – 25 February 2014) was a geologist and scientist with the Geological Survey of Canada.

Anthony Brian Watts FRS is a British marine geologist and geophysicist and Professor of Marine Geology and Geophysics in the Department of Earth Sciences, at the University of Oxford.

Robert (Bob) White is Professor of Geophysics in the Earth Sciences department at Cambridge University (since 1989) and was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS) in 1994.

Sir Edward "Teddy" Crisp Bullard FRS (21 September 1907 – 3 April 1980) was a geophysicist who is considered, along with Maurice Ewing, to have founded the discipline of marine geophysics.

Violet Rosemary Strachan Hutton (22 October 1925 – 1 April 2004), known to her peers as Rosemary, was a British geophysicist and pioneer of magnetotellurics.

William Bullerwell was born on 27 September 1916 at 57 Hunters Road, Newcastle-upon-Tyne.

Philip Christopher England FRS (born 30 April 1951) is a British geophysicist whose research centres upon the evolution, deformation and metamorphism of mountain ranges and the development of island arcs.

Frederick John Vine FRS (born 17 June 1939) is an English marine geologist and geophysicist.

John Philip Burrows FRS is Professor of the Physics of the Ocean and Atmosphere and Director of the Institutes of Environmental Physics and Remote Sensing at the University of Bremen.

Dr Herman Shaw (1892 – 4 May 1950) was a British geophysicist who was Director of the Science Museum in London, England.

Maurice Neville Hill FRS (29 May 1919 – 11 January 1966) was a British marine geophysicist.

Robert Were Fox FRS (26 April 1789 – 25 July 1877) was a British geologist, natural philosopher and inventor.

Louis-Noël Moresi (born 30 October 1965) is a Professor of Computational Mathematics & Geophysics at Monash University.

David Cromwell (born 1962) is a British media campaigner and oceanographer.

Jeremy Bloxham FRS is a British geophysicist, and Mallinckrodt Professor of Geophysics, at Harvard University.

He was educated at Norwich School, where he was a prefect in Coke House, and Corpus Christi College, Cambridge where he gained an undergraduate degree in Natural Sciences.