Paul F. Hoffman

This article is about the Canadian geologist. For other uses of the name, see Paul Hoffman (disambiguation).

Paul Felix Hoffman, FRSC, OC (born March 21, 1941) is a Canadian geologist and Sturgis Hooper Professor Emeritus of Geology at Harvard University. He specializes in the Precambrian era and is widely known for his research on Snowball Earth glaciation in the Neoproterozoic era particularly through his research on sedimentary rocks of Namibia.[1][2][3]

Life and career

Born 1941 in Toronto, Ontario, he received a B.Sc. from McMaster University in 1964, a M.Sc. from Johns Hopkins University in 1965, and was awarded a Ph.D. by Johns Hopkins University in 1970, where his doctoral advisor was Francis J. Pettijohn.[4]

Paul Hoffman formerly worked for the Geological Survey of Canada and was subsequently the Sturgis Hooper Professor of Geology at Harvard University.[5] He currently resides in Victoria, British Columbia where he has an appointment within the University of Victoria School of Earth and Ocean Science.

He is also the brother of Abby Hoffman, a Pan American Games gold medalist and Olympian in track and field. Both have received the Order of Canada for accomplishments in different fields.

Honours

Works

  • Hoffman, Paul F. (1968) Stratigraphy of the Lower Proterozoic (Aphebian), Great Slave Supergroup, east arm of Great Slave Lake, District of Makenzie Ottawa: Geological Survey of Canada OCoLC 111430495
  • P F Hoffman; D Kurfurst (1988) Geology and tectonics, East Arm of Great Slave Lake, District of Mackenzie, Northwest Territories Ottawa: Geological Survey of Canada OCLC 22412425
  • P F Hoffman; L Hall (1993) Geology, Slave craton and environs, District of Mackenzie, Northwest Territories Ottawa: Geological Survey of Canada OCLC 290944947
  • Hoffman, P.F., Kaufman, A.J., Halverson, G.P. & Schrag, D.P. (1998) “A Neoproterozoic snowball Earth” Science 281, 1342-46
  • Hoffman, P.F. & Schrag, D.P. (2000) “Snowball Earth” Scientific American 282, 68-75
  • Hoffman, P.F. & Schrag, D.P. (2002) “The snowball Earth hypothesis: testing the limits of global change” Terra Nova 14, 129-155
  • Snowball Earth (2005) Rita Chang & Alan Fine OCLC 165116212

References

  1. ^ Walker, Gabrielle (2004). Snowball Earth: The Story of a Maverick Scientist and His Theory of the Global Catastrophe That Spawned Life As We Know It. Broadway Books. ISBN 978-1400051250.
  2. ^ Price, Raymond. "2011 Penrose Medal citation". GSA Honors and Awards. Geological Society of America. Retrieved May 14, 2019.
  3. ^ Poppick, Laura (March 19, 2019). "The story of Snowball Earth". Knowable Magazine. Annual Reviews. doi:10.1146/knowable-031919-1. Retrieved 14 May 2019.
  4. ^ Hoffman, Paul F. (30 May 2019). "Big Time". Annual Review of Earth and Planetary Sciences. 47 (1): 1–17. Bibcode:2019AREPS..47....1H. doi:10.1146/annurev-earth-053018-060145. ISSN 0084-6597. S2CID 241913318.
  5. ^ Price, Raymond. "2011 Penrose Medal citation". GSA Honors and Awards. Geological Society of America. Retrieved May 14, 2019.
  6. ^ "EPS in the news". Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences. Harvard University. January 2009. Archived from the original on December 19, 2008. Retrieved 2009-02-25.
  7. ^ "Appointments to the Order of Canada". Governor General of Canada. June 29, 2012. Retrieved 2012-07-25.
  8. ^ "Gold Medal- Award Recipients since its inception in 1972". Royal Canadian Geographical Society. Archived from the original on 6 November 2018. Retrieved 1 December 2016.
  9. ^ "ポール・F・ホフマン | 京都賞" (in Japanese). Inamori Foundation. Retrieved 2024-10-08.