Kenneth Midworth Creer | |
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Born | 1925 |
Died | 19 August 2020 (age 95).[1] |
Education | University of Cambridge |
Scientific career | |
Institutions | HM Geological Survey Newcastle University University of Edinburgh |
Kenneth Midworth Creer (1925–2020)[1] was a British and Manx geophysicist who was the head of the geophysics department at the University of Edinburgh. He was the president of the European Geophysical Society from 1992 to 1994 and won the Gold Medal of the Royal Astronomical Society in 1996 among other accolades. Creer was an early pioneer of the theory of paleomagnetism, and was instrumental in producing the first paleomagnetic surveys and the first polar wandering curve.