Dan McKenzie Scientist

Dan Peter McKenzie, CH, FRS is a Professor of Geophysics at the University of Cambridge, and one-time head of the Bullard Laboratories of the Cambridge Department of Earth Sciences. He wrote the first paper defining the principles of plate tectonics, and his early work on mantle convection created the modern discussion of planetary interiors.

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Birth dateJanuary 01, 1942
Birth place
Cheltenham

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awards
Crafoord Prize
Copley Medal
doctoral advisor
Field of study
Geophysics
influenced by
Don L. Anderson

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