Kenneth S. Deffeyes | |
|---|---|
| Born | 26 December 1931 Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, US |
| Died | 29 November 2017 (aged 85)[1] La Jolla, California, US |
| Alma mater | Colorado School of Mines (BS) Princeton University (PhD) |
| Occupation(s) | geologist, author, professor |
| Title | Professor |
Kenneth S. Deffeyes was a geologist who worked with M. King Hubbert, the creator of the Hubbert peak theory, at the Shell Oil Company research laboratory in Houston, Texas. He claimed Chickasaw ancestry.[2]
Deffeyes made a lively personal impression. McPhee characterized him in Basin and Range (1981): "Deffeyes is a big man with a tenured waistline. His hair flies behind him like Ludwig van Beethoven. He lectures in sneakers. His voice is syllabic, elocutionary, operatic. ... His surname rhymes with 'the maze.'"[3]