Dick Walcott
Dick Walcott | |
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Born | c.1933 |
Alma mater | Victoria University of Wellington |
Awards | Hector Medal (1993) Charles A. Whitten Medal (1999) |
Scientific career | |
Institutions | Victoria University of Wellington |
Thesis | Structure and Petrology of the Red Hill Complex, Nelson (1965) |
Richard Irving Walcott FRS (born c.1933) is a New Zealand geologist known for his work on plate tectonics.[1]
Walcott studied at Victoria University College, graduating with a BSc in 1962.[2] He then completed his PhD at Victoria University of Wellington in 1965, with a thesis on the Red Hill Complex at Nelson,[3] and was awarded a DSc by thesis from the same institution in 1981.[4] In 1966 he took up a postdoctoral research position at the University of British Columbia and the following year began working at the gravity division of Energy, Mines and Resources Canada.[5] He returned to New Zealand in 1975,[5] became professor of geology at Victoria in 1983,[1] retired in 1999,[6] and was granted the title of emeritus professor.[7]
He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of New Zealand in 1982,[8] and a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1991.[9] In 1993 he won the Royal Society of New Zealand's Hector Medal,[10] and in 1999 he was awarded the Charles A. Whitten Medal by the American Geophysical Union.[6]
The Walcott Névé in the Ross Dependency was named for Walcott by the northern party of the in 1961–62, of which he was the leader.[11]
References
- ^ a b Barrowman, Rachel (1999). Victoria University of Wellington, 1899–1999: a history. Wellington: Victoria University Press. p. 180. ISBN 978-0-86473-369-6.
- ^ "NZ university graduates 1870–1961: U–Wh". Retrieved 17 October 2014.
- ^ Walcott, Richard (1965). Structure and Petrology of the Red Hill Complex, Nelson (PDF) (Doctoral thesis). Open Access Repository Victoria University of Wellington, Victoria University of Wellington. doi:10.26686/wgtn.16945564.
- ^ "Lithosphere mechanics". Victoria University of Wellington. 1981. Archived from the original on 17 October 2014. Retrieved 17 October 2014.
- ^ a b McKenzie, Dan P.; Walcott, Richard I. (7 March 2000). "Walcott receives 1999 Whitten medal". Eos. 81 (10): 103. Bibcode:2000EOSTr..81..103M. doi:10.1029/00eo00067.
- ^ a b "Scientist wins award". Waikato Times. 10 April 2000. p. 2.
- ^ "Richard Walcott". Victoria University of Wellington. 24 April 2012. Retrieved 17 October 2014.
- ^ "The Academy: V–Z". Royal Society of New Zealand. Retrieved 17 October 2014.
- ^ "List of Fellows of the Royal Society 1660–2007" (PDF). Royal Society. July 2007. Retrieved 17 October 2014.
- ^ "Hector Medal". Royal Society of New Zealand. Retrieved 17 October 2014.
- ^ "Walcott Névé, Antarctica". www.geographic.org/. Retrieved 17 October 2014.
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