Trevor Elliott (geoscientist)

Trevor Elliott (26 August 1949 – 28 January 2013) was a British geoscientist, professor, and winner of the Bigsby Medal.

Early life and career

Elliott was born in Lancashire. He received his BSc in Geology from the University College of Swansea in 1970, and his DPhil from the University of Oxford in 1974. He was a Royal Society postdoctoral fellow at the University of Leiden, and also carried out postdoctoral studies at the University of Reading.[1]

In 1976 he became Lecturer in Sedimentology at the University College of Swansea, and in 1984 he was appointed George Herdman Professor of Geology at the University of Liverpool, where he remained for more than twenty years.[1]

He was a visiting professor at both Iowa State University (on a Fulbright Scholarship), and Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and Distinguished Lecturer of the American Association of Petroleum Geologists.[1]

In 1989 he was awarded the Bigsby Medal by the Geological Society of London.[2]

Personal life

He was married to Marianne Elliott, director of Liverpool University's Institute of Irish Studies.[3]

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gollark: There was a government program to fund fibre connectivity, but it doesn't seem to have worked well.
gollark: A lot of developed countries seem to have issues like this because the old stuff technically works and has tons of inertia and regulatory nonsense and nobody cares enough to replace it, but developing ones which didn't have big telephone networks or whatever presumably just installed fibre and did fine.
gollark: The UK isn't very good at infrastructure.
gollark: Yes, I'll just manually lay fibre to the nearest internet exchange.

References
  1. Pulham, Andy. "BSRG - Prof. Trevor Elliott". Obituary. British Sedimentological Research Group. Retrieved 30 January 2017.
  2. "Award Winners - Bigsby Medal". Geological Society of London. Retrieved 30 January 2017.
  3. Reisz, Matthew (7 March 2013). "Trevor Elliott, 1949-2013 Times Higher Education (THE)". Times Higher Education. Retrieved 30 January 2017.
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