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Donald L. Turcotte

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Known for
  
Geophysics

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Born
  
Donald Leslie Turcotte April 22, 1932 (age 84) Bellingham, Washington (
1932-04-22
)

Alma mater
  
Caltech Cornell University

Notable awards
  
Arthur L. Day Medal(1981), Charles A. Whitten Medal (1995), William Bowie Medal (2002)

Education
  
California Institute of Technology (1958)

Awards
  
Guggenheim Fellowship for Natural Sciences, US & Canada, Arthur L. Day Medal

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Books
  
Geodynamics, Fractals and Chaos in Geolog, Mantle Convection in the Ear

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Donald L. Turcotte (born April 22, 1932) is an American geophysicist, most famous for his work on the boundary layer theory of mantle convection as part of the theory of plate tectonics.

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He has won awards including the Arthur L. Day Medal of the Geological Society of America, the William Bowie Medal and the Charles A. Whitten Medal of the American Geophysical Union. He is a member of the National Academy of Sciences.

In 2008, the American Geophysical Union's Nonlinear Geophysics committee established the Donald L. Turcotte Award, which is given annually to one honoree "in recognition of outstanding dissertation research that contributes directly to nonlinear geophysics."

Books

  • Donald L. Turcotte and Gerald Schubert, Geodynamics, Cambridge University Press, Third Edition (2014), ISBN 978-1-107-00653-9 (Hardback) ISBN 978-0-521-18623-0 (Paperback)
  • Donald L. Turcotte, Fractals and chaos in geology and geophysics, Cambridge University Press, 1997
  • Gerald Schubert, Donald L. Turcotte, and Peter Olson, Mantle convection in the Earth and planets, Cambridge University Press, 2001

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