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James Desmond Caldwell McConnell

Date of birth: 3rd July 1930

Place of birth: Lisburn, N. Ireland

Nationality: British

UNIVERSITY CAREER

  • Queen’s University, Belfast 1947-1952

    BSc Honours 2.1 in Geology 1951

    M.Sc. Tertiary dolerite intrusions at Ballycraigy, Larne N.I 1952

  • University of Cambridge, Department of Mineralogy and Petrology, 1952-1955

    M.A. Camtab 1955

    Ph.D. 1956 The composite dolerite at

    Ballycraigy, Larne N.I.

PROFESSIONAL CAREER

UNIVERSITY of CAMBRIDGE

  • University Demonstrator in Mineralogy and Petrology

    1955-1960

  • University Lecturer in Mineralogy and Petrology

    1960-1972

  • Reader in Mineralogy

    1972-1982

  • Vice President, Mineralogical Society of London

    1977-1978

  • Visiting Professor, SUNY at Stoney Brook, NY

    1977

  • Visiting Professor, Marburg University, W Germany

    1979

  • Visiting Professor and ISPS Fellowship to Japan

    1982

SCHLUMBERGER CAMBRIDGE RESEARCH

  • Head of the Department of Rock Physics

    1983-1986

CHURCHILL COLLEGE CAMBRIDGE

  • Founding Fellow and College lecturer in Crystallography

    1962-1982

  • Tutor, Churchill College ,Cambridge

    1965-1972

  • Extraordinary Fellow, Churchill College, Cambridge

    1983-1988

UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD

  • Professor of the Physics and Chemistry of Minerals

    1986-1995

  • (Anew chair in a new subject, Mineral Physics)

  • Professorial Fellow of St. Hugh’s College Oxford

    1986-1995

  • Fellow of the Royal Society of London

    1987-

  • Head of the Department of Earth Sciences, Oxford University

    1991-1995

  • Emeritus Professor of the Physics and Chemistry of Minerals

    1995-

  • Honorary Fellow of St. Hugh’s College, Oxford

    1995-

  • Humboldt Prize for Mineral Physics

    1996

  • Visiting scientist at the Bayerisches Geoinstitut , Bayreuth

    1997-1999

  • Return to Cambridge and Earth Sciences, Cambridge

    2005