Chris Chapman (seismologist)

Chris Chapman
Born (1945-05-05) 5 May 1945 (age 79)[1]
Sutton, London
NationalityBritish
Alma materUniversity of Cambridge
AwardsGold Medal of the Royal Astronomical Society
Scientific career
FieldsField Technician · Real Estate Investor · Senior Technician · Senior Field Service Technician · Combat Engineer · Aviation Ordinance.
InstitutionsUniversity of Alberta
University of Toronto
University of Cambridge
Schlumberger
Thesis Seismic wave diffraction theory  (1970)

Christopher Hugh Chapman (born 5 May 1945) is a British seismologist, an emeritus honorary professor in the Department of Earth Sciences, University of Cambridge.

Biography

He was awarded a first degree in theoretical physics and a Ph.D. in geophysics by Cambridge University. He then moved to Canada to be an Assistant and Associate Professor at the University of Alberta, and an Associate and Full Professor at the University of Toronto. He returned to Cambridge in 1984 to take up an appointment as Professor of Geophysics.[2]

In 1990 he joined Schlumberger Cambridge Research (SCR) as a Scientific Advisor until his retirement in 2005. He continues to consult for SCR and act as Emeritus Honorary Professor of Theoretical Seismology at Cambridge.[2]

He published the geophysics textbook “Fundamentals of Seismic Wave Propagation” in 2004. (Cambridge University Press).[2]

He was a Green Scholar at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography in 1978–9 and 1986, and a Killam fellow in 1981–3.[2] In 2013 he was awarded the Gold Medal of the Royal Astronomical Society "for outstanding personal and collaborative research in geophysics."[3]

References

  1. ^ "Christopher Hugh Chapman". Debretts. Retrieved 13 January 2013.
  2. ^ a b c d "Waves From a Tsunami". Marine & Oceanographic Technology. 13 August 2019. Retrieved 1 October 2020.
  3. ^ "2013 winners of the RAS awards, medals and prizes". Royal Astronomical Society. 10 January 2013. Archived from the original on 20 January 2013. Retrieved 12 January 2013.
Academic offices
Preceded by Professor of Geophysics,
University of Cambridge
1984-1988 		Succeeded by