Awards & Winners

Dan McKenzie

Date of Birth 1942
Place of Birth Cheltenham
(Gloucestershire, United Kingdom, England)
Nationality United Kingdom
Dan Peter McKenzie, CH, FRS is a Professor of Geophysics at the University of Cambridge, and one-time head of the Bullard Laboratories of the Cambridge Department of Earth Sciences. He wrote the first paper defining the principles of plate tectonics, and his early work on mantle convection created the modern discussion of planetary interiors.

Awards by Dan McKenzie

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2011


Copley Medal
(For his seminal contributions to the understanding of geological and geophysical phenomena including tectonic plates.)