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Francis Muir (born April 27, 1926) is a former research associate at theGeophysics Department ofStanford University. Muir graduated fromOxford University in 1950 with an MA degree inmathematics.
He worked as a research and field explorationseismologist withSeismograph Service from 1954 through 1962, and then withWest Australian Petroleum as a field supervisor until 1967. He then transferred to theChevron Oilfield Research Company, which he left in 1983 as senior research associate. Since then he has held an appointment as consulting professor in the Geophysics Department at Stanford University, first with Jon Claerbout's SEP group and more recently with Amos Nur's SRB Project.
Muir consults with industry, particularly on applications of velocity anisotropy to oilfield development, and is a co-investigator on a project onAnisotropy for theDOE. He is a member of the SEG Research Committee, an erstwhile fellow of theRoyal Astronomical Society, and an active participant in the Web-based "anisotropists" list. Theasteroid95802 Francismuir commemorates Muir in his capacities as the mentor and advisor of its discoverer.[1] He retired from Stanford in 2005.