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Keith Runcorn Prize

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The Keith Runcorn Prize is awarded annually by the Royal Astronomical Society for the best British doctoral thesis in geophysics (including planetary science). The winner receives a cash prize and presents the results of their thesis at a meeting of the Royal Astronomical Society.[1]

The prize is sponsored by Oxford University Press, and since 2007[2] named after Keith Runcorn, a British physicist whose paleomagnetic reconstruction of the relative motions of Europe and America revived the theory of continental drift.

Recipients[3]

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Year Name Affiliation
1992 Douglas Stewart University of Leeds
1993 Sara Russell Open University
1994 Tim Henstock University of Cambridge
1995 Graeme Sarson University of Leeds
1996 Tim Horbury Imperial College London
1997 Cathryn Mitchell University of Wales at Aberystwyth
1998 Mark Muller University of Cambridge
1999 Marcus Brüggen
2000 Dave Skeet University of Oxford
2001
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2002 Emma Bunce University of Leicester
2003 Clare Watt British Antarctic Survey
2004 Paul Williams University of Oxford
2005 Phillip Livermore University of Leeds
2006 Sophie Bassett University of Durham
2007 Leigh Fletcher University of Oxford
2008 David Jess Queen's University Belfast
2009 David Halliday University of Edinburgh
2010 James Verdon University of Bristol
2011 David Kipping University College London
2012 Sudipta Sarkar University of Southampton
2013 Richard Walters University of Leeds
2014 Hannah Christensen (née Arnold) University of Oxford
2015 Matteo Ravasi University of Edinburgh
2016 Rishy Mistry Imperial College

See also

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References

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  1. ^ "Awards, Medals and Prizes - Keith Runcorn Prize". Royal Astronomical Society. Retrieved 12 August 2015.
  2. ^ "The Royal Astronomical Society".
  3. ^ "Thesis Prize Winners" (PDF). Royal Astronomical Society. Retrieved 2023-10-21.