| LC control no. | n 50022105 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| Personal name heading | Runcorn, S. K. |
| Variant(s) | Runcorn, Stanley Keith, 1922-1995 Runcorn, Keith, 1922-1995 |
| Birth date | 1922-11-19 |
| Death date | 1995-12-05 |
| Place of birth | Southport (England) |
| Place of death | San Diego (Calif.) |
| Affiliation | University of Manchester University of Newcastle upon Tyne |
| Profession or occupation | Physicists College teachers |
| Found in | His Methods and techniques in geophysics, 1960- Magnetism, planetary rotation, and convection in the solar system, c1985: t.p. (S.K. Runcorn) pref. (Stanley Keith Runcorn) Flow and creep in the solar system, 1993: CIP t.p. (S.K. Runcorn) CIP data sheet (b. 11-19-22) Report on the correspondence and papers of Stanley Keith Runcorn FRS (1922-1995), 2002 Wikipedia, February 6, 2019 (Keith Runcorn; (Stanley) Keith Runcorn FRS (19 November 1922--5 December 1995) was a British physicist whose paleomagnetic reconstruction of the relative motions of Europe and America revived the theory of continental drift and was a major contribution to plate tectonics; he was born in Southport, Lancashire and graduated in engineering from the University of Cambridge in 1942; after a period in radar research during the World War II, he joined the Physics Department at the University of Manchester where he did research on aspects of the Earth's magnetic field, taking his Ph. D. for research supervised by Patrick Blackett in 1949; he was appointed to the chair of Physics at Newcastle University in 1956; after his retirement in 1988 he continued to be active in various lines of research until his death in San Diego in 1995) |
| Associated language | eng |
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