Brian Kennett

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Brian Leslie Norman Kennett AO FRS FAA (born 7 May 1948 in Croydon, Surrey, UK [1] ) is a mathematical physicist and seismologist. He is now a professor emeritus at the Australian National University. [2]

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Education and career

Kennett graduated in Theoretical Physics at the University of Cambridge with a first class bachelor's degree in 1969 and then took the Mathematical Tripos Part III achieving Honours with Distinction in 1970. He received his Ph.D in theoretical seismology from the Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics in 1973. He was a Research Fellow of Emmanuel College, Cambridge from 1972 to 1976. As a postdoc, he was at the University of California, San Diego from 1974 to 1975, before returning in 1975 to the University of Cambridge, where he was a lecturer until he moved to Australia. In 1984, Kennett joined the Research School of Earth Sciences of the Australian National University (ANU) where he established a strong observational and theoretical program in seismology. He was a visiting scientist at, among other places, the University of Tokyo in 2002 and the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich in 2009. From 2006 to 2010 he was director of the Research School of Earth Sciences of the ANU. [2]

Kennett was elected in 1988 a Fellow of the American Geophysical Union and in 1996 an Honorary Fellow of the Royal Astronomical Society. From 1999 to 2003, he was President of the International Association of Seismology and Physics of the Earth’s Interior (IASPEI). [2] He was elected as a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Science in 1994 and as a Fellow of the Royal Society of London in 2005.

Kennett has made significant contributions to research on the Earth's internal structure. [3] His theoretical work on the form of seismograms and their application (e.g., seismic tomography) has contributed to the study of the Earth's mantle, particularly in Australia. He has developed comprehensive models of propagation velocities of seismic waves that serve as a basis for determining the epicenter of an earthquake, including the IASP91  [ de ] model and the AK135  [ de ] model. [2]

Awards and honours

Books

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References

  1. ↑ Kennett, Brian Leslie Norman (1948–), Encyclopedia of Australian Science (eoas.info)
  2. 1 2 3 4 "Professor Brian Kennett". Australian National University (anu.edu.au).
  3. 1 2 "Brian Kennett Receives 2017 Inge Lehmann Medal". Eos. 26 December 2017.
  4. ↑ Barrow-Green, June (2010). "A Corrective to the Spirit of too Exclusively Pure Mathematics': Robert Smith (1689-1768) and his Prizes at Cambridge University". Annals of Science. 56 (3): 271. doi:10.1080/000337999296418.
  5. ↑ "Professor Brian Kennett - Australian Academy of Science". science.org.au.
  6. ↑ "Jaeger Medal - Australian Academy of Science". science.org.au.
  7. ↑ "Brian Kennett". royalsociety.org.
  8. ↑ "The Geological Society of London - Murchison Medal". geolsoc.org.uk. 24 August 2016.
  9. ↑ "2007 Beno Gutenberg Medal — Brian L. N. Kennett". egu.eu.
  10. ↑ Gold Medal Winners the Royal Astronomical Society
  11. ↑ "2011 awardees - Australian Academy of Science". science.org.au.
  12. ↑ "American Geophysical Union Announcements Recipients of the 2017 Union Medals, Awards and Prizes". news.agu.org. 20 July 2017.
  13. ↑ Tromp, Jeroen (5 August 2003). "Review of The Seismic Wavefield, Volume 2 by Brian Kennett". Eos. 84 (31): 296–297. doi: 10.1029/2003EO310010 .
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