Keith Runcorn Prize

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The Keith Runcorn Prize is awarded annually by the Royal Astronomical Society for the best British doctoral thesis in geophysics (including planetary science). The winner receives a cash prize and presents the results of their thesis at a meeting of the Royal Astronomical Society. [1]

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The prize is sponsored by Oxford University Press, and since 2007 [2] named after Keith Runcorn, a British physicist whose paleomagnetic reconstruction of the relative motions of Europe and America revived the theory of continental drift.

Recipients

Year [3] NameAffiliation
1992Douglas Stewart University of Leeds
1993 Sara Russell Open University
1994Tim Henstock University of Cambridge
1995Graeme Sarson University of Leeds
1996Tim Horbury Imperial College London
1997 Cathryn Mitchell University of Wales at Aberystwyth
1998Mark Muller University of Cambridge
1999Marcus Brüggen
2000Dave Skeet University of Oxford
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2002 Emma Bunce University of Leicester
2003 Clare Watt British Antarctic Survey
2004Paul Williams University of Oxford
2005Phillip Livermore University of Leeds
2006Sophie Bassett University of Durham
2007Leigh Fletcher University of Oxford
2008David Jess Queen's University Belfast
2009David Halliday University of Edinburgh
2010James Verdon University of Bristol
2011David Kipping University College London
2012Sudipta Sarkar University of Southampton
2013Richard Walters University of Leeds
2014Hannah Christensen (née Arnold) University of Oxford
2015Matteo Ravasi University of Edinburgh
2016Rishy Mistry Imperial College

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References

  1. "Awards, Medals and Prizes - Keith Runcorn Prize". Royal Astronomical Society. Retrieved 12 August 2015.
  2. "The Royal Astronomical Society".
  3. "Thesis Prize Winners" (PDF). Royal Astronomical Society. Retrieved 2023-10-21.