Keith O'Nions

Professor
Sir Keith O'Nions
FRS HonFREng
Born
Robert Keith O'Nions

(1944-09-26) 26 September 1944 (age 80)
Birmingham
NationalityBritish
Alma materUniversity of Nottingham
University of Alberta
AwardsBigsby Medal (1983)
Arthur Holmes Medal (1995)
Lyell Medal (1995)
Knight Bachelor (1999)
Urey Medal (2001)
HonFREng[1] (2005)
Scientific career
InstitutionsUniversity of Alberta
University of Oslo
University of Oxford
Imperial College London
Columbia University
University of Cambridge
ThesisGeochronology of the Bamble sector of the Baltic Shield, South Norway (1969)
Doctoral advisorRoger D. Morton

Sir Robert Keith O'Nions (born 26 September 1944),[2] is a British scientist and ex-President & Rector of Imperial College London. He is the former Director General of the Research Councils UK as well as Professor of the Physics and Chemistry of Minerals and Head of the Department of Earth Sciences at the University of Oxford.[3]

  1. ^ "List of Fellows". Archived from the original on 8 June 2016. Retrieved 29 October 2014.
  2. ^ The International Who's Who 2004. Routledge. 2003. p. 1257. ISBN 1-85743-217-7.
  3. ^ Professor Sir Keith O'Nions FRS, Imperial College, London, UK.