Peter John Wyllie
Peter John Wyllie (born 8 February 1930, in London, England) is a British petrologist and academic.
He was Professor of Geology at the California Institute of Technology from 1983 until his retirement in 1999. Prior to this, he held positions at the University of St Andrews (1955–56), Pennsylvania State University (1958–59 and 1961–66), the University of Leeds (1959–61), and the University of Chicago (1965–83).[1] He is well known for his many contributions to the understanding of magmatism, particularly through his work on the experimental petrology of magmas and volatiles. In the early 1970s, Wyllie wrote two widely used textbooks; The Dynamic Earth (1971) and The Way the Earth Works (1976) which integrated the new understanding of magmatism and plate tectonics.[2] He is also famous for his contributions to the coverage of earth sciences in the Encyclopædia Britannica, particularly his outline of the field in Part Two of the Propædia. Wyllie was President of the International Union of Geodesy and Geophysics (IUGG) from 1995 to 1999.
Awards and honours
[edit]- Polar Medal, 1954[3]
- National Academy of Sciences, USA, 1981
- Wollaston Medal, Geological Society of London, 1982
- Fellow of the Royal Society, London, 1984
- Roebling Medal, Mineralogical Society of America, 2001[4]
References
[edit]- ^ "Professor Peter John Wyllie: Biographical Summary". California Institute of Technology. 2008. Retrieved 16 August 2015.
- ^ Niu, Yaoling; Wilson, Marjorie (July–August 2011). "Magma generation and evolution and global tectonics: An issue in honour of Peter J. Wyllie for his life-long contributions by means of experimental petrology to understanding how the Earth works". Journal of Petrology. 52 (7–8). Oxford University Press: 1239–1242. doi:10.1093/petrology/egr028.
- ^ "No. 40339". The London Gazette (Supplement). 26 November 1954. p. 6789.
- ^ Montana, Art (2002). "Presentation of the Roebling Medal of the Mineralogical Society of America for 2001 to Peter John Wyllie" (PDF). American Mineralogist. 87. Mineralogical Society of America: 788–789. Retrieved 16 August 2015.
External links
[edit]- "Peter J. Wyllie". California Institute of Technology. 2008.
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