Keith Runcorn

Keith Runcorn
FRS
Born
Stanley Keith Runcorn

19 November 1922
Southport, England, United Kingdom
Died5 December 1995(1995-12-05) (aged 73)
San Diego, California, United States
Alma materUniversity of Cambridge (BA)
University of Manchester (PhD)
Known forreestablishing viability of the theory of continental drift; discoveries in planetary magnetism
Awards
Scientific career
FieldsPlate tectonics
Paleomagnetism
InstitutionsUniversity of Cambridge
University of Manchester
Newcastle University
University of Alaska, Fairbanks
ThesisInvestigations relating to the main geomagnetic field (1949)
Doctoral advisorPatrick Blackett[1]

(Stanley) Keith Runcorn FRS[2] (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.[2][3][4]

  1. ^ Cite error: The named reference runphd was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  2. ^ a b Collinson, D. W. (2002). "Stanley Keith Runcorn. 19 November 1922–5 December 1995". Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society. 48: 391–403. doi:10.1098/rsbm.2002.0023. JSTOR 3650268.
  3. ^ Hide, Raymond (1996). "Stanley Keith Runcorn F.R.S. (1922–1995)". Quarterly Journal of the Royal Astronomical Society. 37 (3). Royal Astronomical Society: 463–465. Bibcode:1996QJRAS..37..463H.
  4. ^ Biography - Newcastle