Stephen Moorbath

Stephen Moorbath
Stephen Moorbath in Linacre College Common Room, 1986
Born(1929-05-09)9 May 1929[1]
Magdeburg, Germany[3]
Died16 October 2016(2016-10-16) (aged 87)
Alma materLincoln College, Oxford
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Stephen Erwin Moorbath FRS[4] (9 May 1929–16 October 2016) was a British geochronologist. He set up (1956–58) and then directed the Geological Age and Isotope Research Group at the University of Oxford, before retiring.[3][2][5]

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  4. ^ Dewey, J. F.; Taylor, P. N. (2020). "Stephen Moorbath. 9 May 1929 — 16 October 2016". Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society. 69: 365–391. doi:10.1098/rsbm.2020.0016. S2CID 221157927.
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