Michael John O'Hara

Michael John O'Hara FRS^[1] (22 February 1933 — 24 November 2014) was a British geologist who specialised in igneous petrology.

Born in Sydney, Australia, but raised in the UK, Michael began his geology studies at Cambridge University, earning his undergraduate and PhD degrees.

In 1958, he took up a position at Edinburgh University, in the Grant Institute of Geology, where he remained until 1978, with an episode at the Geophysical Laboratory of the Carnegie Institute. He also served as a NASA principal investigator from 1967 to 1974, analysing lunar rock samples from the Apollo missions.  

In 1978, he moved from Edinburgh to become head of the geology department at University College of Wales Aberystwyth, where he remained until 1993. This period included academic postings at California Institute of Technology, Harvard University and Sultan Qaboos University, as well as national administerial duties with the Natural Environment Research Council (NERC). He was finally appointed Distinguished Research Professor at Cardiff University in 1993.

He was elected Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh in 1969 and Fellow of the Royal Society in 1981.

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