Harry Elderfield

Harry Elderfield
FRS
Born
Henry Elderfield

(1943-04-25)25 April 1943[5]
Died19 April 2016(2016-04-19) (aged 72)[3]
NationalityBritish
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Professor Henry "Harry" Elderfield FRS[6][7] (25 April 1943 – 19 April 2016), was Professor of Ocean Chemistry and Palaeochemistry at the Godwin Laboratory in the Department of Earth Sciences at the University of Cambridge.[8][9] He made his name in ocean chemistry and palaeochemistry, using trace metals and isotopes in biogenic carbonate as palaeochemical tracers, and studying the chemistry of modern and ancient oceans - especially those of the glacial epoch and the Cenozoic.[3][10]

  1. ^ Rachel Mills exploring the sea floor
  2. ^ Mills, Rachel Ann (1992). A geochemical and isotopic study of hydrothermal sediments from the Mid-Atlantic Ridge, 26 deg N. jisc.ac.uk (PhD thesis). University of Cambridge. EThOS uk.bl.ethos.260428. Archived from the original on 5 July 2018. Retrieved 5 July 2018.
  3. ^ a b c Rickaby, Rosalind E. M. (2016). "Harry Elderfield (1943–2016)". Nature. 533 (7603): 322. Bibcode:2016Natur.533..322R. doi:10.1038/533322a. PMID 27193672.
  4. ^ Rickaby, Rosalind Emily Mayors (1999). Planktonic foraminiferal Cd/Ca : a new perspective on Southern Ocean palaeoproductivity. jisc.ac.uk (PhD thesis). University of Cambridge. OCLC 894602139. EThOS uk.bl.ethos.624523. Archived from the original on 5 July 2018. Retrieved 5 July 2018.
  5. ^ Anon (2016). "Elderfield, Prof. Henry". Who's Who (online Oxford University Press ed.). Oxford: A & C Black. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
  6. ^ Anon (1996). "Professor Henry Elderfield FRS". London: Royal Society. Archived from the original on 17 November 2015. One or more of the preceding sentences incorporates text from the royalsociety.org website where:

    “All text published under the heading 'Biography' on Fellow profile pages is available under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.” --"Royal Society Terms, conditions and policies". Archived from the original on 25 September 2015. Retrieved 9 March 2016.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link)
  7. ^ McCave, Ian Nicholas; Hodell, David Arnold (2024). "Henry Elderfield. 25 April 1943—19 April 2016". Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society. 76: 145–168. doi:10.1098/rsbm.2023.0046.
  8. ^ "Professor Harry Elderfield: Climate Change and Earth-Ocean-Atmosphere Systems". Cambridge: cam.ac.uk. Archived from the original on 1 August 2015.
  9. ^ Anand, Pallavi; Elderfield, Henry; Conte, Maureen H. (2003). "Calibration of Mg/Ca thermometry in planktonic foraminifera from a sediment trap time series" (PDF). Paleoceanography. 18 (2): n/a. Bibcode:2003PalOc..18.1050A. doi:10.1029/2002PA000846.
  10. ^ CEI Profile page Archived 25 March 2005 at the Wayback Machine