Christopher Hawkesworth

Christopher John Hawkesworth FRS FRSE (born 18 December 1947) is a British earth scientist, and former Deputy Principal and Vice-Principal for Research, at University of St Andrews.[1][2]

Biography

Hawkesworth was born in Khartoum, Sudan and brought up in Ireland. He graduated from Trinity College, Dublin in 1970, and Oxford University at St Edmund Hall in 1974. He received his DPhil at Oxford under the supervision of Professor Ron Oxburgh. He held positions at Open University and University of Bristol prior to holding the Wardlaw Chair of Earth Sciences and the position of Deputy Principal and Vice-Principal of Research at the University of St Andrews until 2014.[3] Awarded the Wollaston Medal in 2012. In 2012, he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh[4].

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References
  1. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 25 September 2009. Retrieved 26 December 2011.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  2. HAWKESWORTH, Prof. Christopher John, Who's Who 2015, A & C Black, 2015; online edn, Oxford University Press, 2014
  3. https://www.seh.ox.ac.uk/users/chrishawkesworth
  4. "Professor Christopher John Hawkesworth FRSE - The Royal Society of Edinburgh". The Royal Society of Edinburgh. Retrieved 26 June 2018.
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