Name Philip England Awards Murchison Medal Children Hannah England | Education University of Bristol Role Geophysicist | |
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Doing Geology in Bristol, Oxford, Cambridge and Harvard (P.England)
Philip Christopher England FRS (born 30 April 1951) is a British geophysicist whose research centres upon the evolution, deformation and metamorphism of mountain ranges and the development of island arcs. He has widely used applied mathematics to model mountain building, proving that they behave as extremely viscous fluids.
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- Doing Geology in Bristol Oxford Cambridge and Harvard PEngland
- Education
- Career and research
- Awards and honours
- Personal life
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Education
England graduated with a degree in physics from the University of Bristol in 1972. He then moved to the University of Oxford to undertake research in geophysics, receiving his D Phil in 1976.
Career and research
Since 2000, he has held the position of Professor of Geology at the University of Oxford and a Fellow of University College, Oxford.
Awards and honours
He was awarded the Gold Medal of the Royal Astronomical Society in 2016. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1999.
Personal life
His daughter is the middle distance runner, Hannah England.