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