Robert Ladislav Parker | |
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| Born | (1942-02-24)24 February 1942 |
| Education | University of Cambridge, UK |
| Known for | Geophysical Inverse Theory |
| Spouse | Florence Monica Dirac[5] |
| Awards | John Adam Fleming Medal[1] Gold Medal of the Royal Astronomical Society[2] Fellow, Royal Society of London[3] |
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| Fields | Geophysicist and Mathematician |
| Institutions | Scripps Institution of Oceanography |
| Thesis | Geophysical Studies in Electromagnetic Induction[4] (1966) |
| Doctoral advisor | Edward Bullard |
Robert L. Parker is an American geophysicist and mathematician, currently holding a Professor Emeritus of Geophysics position at theScripps Institution of Oceanography at theUniversity of California, San Diego in La Jolla, California.
After completing a B.A. in Natural Sciences in 1963, M.A. in 1964, and Ph.D. in 1966[6] in Geophysics atDowning College, Cambridge in England,[7] Parker moved to the U.S. to work at the Institute of Geophysics and Planetary Physics (IGPP). He has subsequently built on work byFreeman Gilbert andGeorge Backus regardinginverse theory and is a world-renowned expert on the general subject of inverse theory, having written one of the authoritative books[1] on the subject: Geophysical Inverse Theory.[8] He is a former director of IGPP.
Parker is an avid bicyclist and keeps track of all of his miles.[9] He has also written about the energy behind bicycle physics.[10]
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