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]

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[]

Source: RAS

  • 2016 Rishy Mistry (Imperial College)
  • 2015 Matteo Ravasi (University of Edinburgh)
  • 2014 Hannah Christensen (née Arnold) (University of Oxford)
  • 2013 Richard Walters (University of Leeds)
  • 2012 Sudipta Sarkar (University of Southampton)
  • 2011 David Kipping (University College London)
  • 2010 James Verdon (University of Bristol)
  • 2009 David Halliday (University of Edinburgh)
  • 2008 David Jess (Queen's University Belfast)
  • 2007 Leigh Fletcher (University of Oxford)
  • 2006 Sophie Bassett (University of Durham)
  • 2005 Phillip Livermore (University of Leeds)
  • 2004 Paul Williams (University of Oxford)
  • 2003 Clare Watt (British Antarctic Survey)
  • 2002 Emma Bunce (University of Leicester)
  • 2001 No award
  • 2000 Dave Skeet (University of Oxford)
  • 1999 Marcus Brüggen (University of Cambridge)
  • 1998 Mark Muller (University of Cambridge)
  • 1997 Cathryn Mitchell (University of Wales at Aberystwyth)
  • 1996 Tim Horbury (Imperial College London)
  • 1995 No award
  • 1994 Tim Henstock (Cambridge)
  • 1993 Sara Russell (Open University)
  • 1992 Douglas Stewart (University of Leeds)

See also[]

References[]

  1. ^ "Awards, Medals and Prizes - Keith Runcorn Prize". Royal Astronomical Society. Retrieved 12 August 2015.
  2. ^ "The Royal Astronomical Society".
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