Institutions Caltech Name Clarence (geologist) | Role Geologist | |
Born February 15, 1925 (age 99)
Palo Alto, California, U.S. ( 1925-02-15 ) Alma mater Reed College, California Institute of Technology Education California Institute of Technology Books The Geology of Earthquakes Fields Planetary science, Geology | ||
Notable awards G. K. Gilbert Award | ||
Clarence Roderic Allen (born February 15, 1925) is a geologist who studies seismology. He is a graduate of Reed College (B.A., 1949) and the California Institute of Technology (M.S., 1951; Ph.D., 1954)
Allen has been President of the Seismological Society of America in 1975 and the Geological Society of America. He is a member of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the American Geophysical Union, and the Geological Society of America. He was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1975. Allen has been a member of the National Academy of Sciences and the National Academy of Engineering since 1976.
Allen received the first G.K. Gilbert Award in Seismic Geology and in 1995 he received the Medal of the Seismological Society of America.
He has been a member of the faculty of the California Institute of Technology since 1955. He became a Professor Emeritus there in 1990.