Strangway, David W., 1934-2016

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Personal name heading	Strangway, David W., 1934-2016 *Browse this term in* LC Authorities or the LC Catalog
Variant(s)	Strangway, D. W. (David W.), 1934-2016
Birth date	1934-06-07
Death date	2016-12-13
Place of birth	Simcoe (Ont.)
Place of death	Kelowna (B.C.)
Affiliation	University of Toronto University of Colorado Massachusetts Institute of Technology United States. National Aeronautics and Space Administration Lunar Science Institute University of Toronto University of British Columbia Canada Foundation for Innovation Quest University Canada Royal Society of Canada Order of Canada
Profession or occupation	Geophysicists College teachers College administrators College presidents
Found in	His History of the earth's magnetic field, 1970. The Continental crust and its mineral deposits, 1980: t.p. (D. W. Strangway) Environmental innovation in China, c2012: t.p. (David Strangway, University of British Columbia, Canada) cover (D. Strangway) Wikipedia website, 25 September 2012 (David William Strangway, born 7 June 1934, Canadian geophysicist and university administrator) Vancouver sun, 14 December 2016, online, viewed 10 February 2017 (David Strangway, who led two top Canadian universities through expansion programs before founding the first private secular university in Canada, has died at age 82; born in Angola in 1932 to Canadian missionary parents; president of the University of B.C. for 12 years between 1985 and 1997; created Quest University Canada with a liberal-arts focus) Globe and mail, 11 January 2017, online, viewed 10 February 2017 (Dr. David Strangway, an esteemed geophysicist who later became a towering figure in Canadian academia, died of heart failure on Dec. 13 in Kelowna, B.C.; born on June 7, 1934, in Simcoe, Ontario, spending his childhood in Angola with his medical missionary parents; completed his studies at the University of Toronto in 1960; was president of the University of Toronto before spending 12 years as president of the University of British Columbia) Wikipedia, viewed 10 February 2017: David Strangway (David William Strangway, OC FRSC; Canadian geophysicist and university administrator; born 7 June 1934, Simcoe, Ontario; studied at the University of Toronto, earning a B.A. in Physics and Geology in 1956, an M.A. in physics, and a Ph.D in physics in 1960; worked as Assistant Professor of Geology at the University of Colorado (1961-1964) and Assistant Professor of Geophysics at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (1965-1968), before becoming Chief of the Geophysics Branch at NASA responsibility for geophysical aspects of the Apollo missions in 1970 and the director of the Lunar Science Institute in 1973; served as Vice-President and Chair of the Geology Department of the University of Toronto (1973-1983), as President of the University of Toronto (1983-1985), as president of the University of British Columbia (1985-1997), and as president and chief executive officer of the Canada Foundation for Innovation (1998-2004); founded Quest University Canada, serving as its first president and first chancellor; author or co-author of more than 165 research papers; made an Officer of the Order of Canada in 1996; died 13 December 2016, Vancouver, B.C.) Canada. Governor General. Honours Recipients database, viewed 10 February 2017 (David W. Strangway, O.C., Ph.D., D.Sc., F.R.S.C., P.Eng; Kelowna, British Columbia; Officer of the Order of Canada, awarded on May 9, 1996, invested on February 26, 1997; President of the University of British Columbia, he is internationally respected as an outstanding scientist and senior academic administrator. Guided by his exemplary leadership, the university has emerged as one of our major national institutions. Throughout his distinguished career in the field of exploration geophysics, including the Apollo missions, his contributions as a researcher, teacher and author have been of the highest calibre; deceased on December 14, 2016) Amicus database, 10 February 2017 (authorized access point: Strangway, D. W.; variant access point: Strangway, David W., 1934- )