Herbert Huppert
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Herbert Huppert FRS |
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| Born |
26 November 1943 Sydney |
| Alma mater |
Sydney University University of California, San Diego |
| Spouse(s) | Felicia Adina Ferster (m. 1966) |
| Children | 2, including Julian Huppert |
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| Website | www |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Geophysics |
| Institutions | University of Cambridge |
| Thesis | The Excitation of Lee Waves in Stratified Flow by Semi-elliptical Obstacles (1968) |
| Doctoral advisor | John W. Miles |
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Herbert Eric Huppert (born 26 November 1943)FRS is an Australian-born geophysicist living in Britain. He has been Professor of Theoretical Geophysics and Foundation Director, Institute of Theoretical Geophysics, at the University of Cambridge, since 1989 and Fellow of King's College, Cambridge, since 1970.
Huppert was born in Sydney and he received his early education at Sydney Boys High School (1956–59). He graduated in Applied Mathematics from Sydney University with first class Honours, a University medal and the Barker Travelling Fellowship in 1964. He then completed a PhD supervised by John W. Miles at the University of California, San Diego, and came as an ICI Post-doctoral Fellow to DAMTP in Cambridge in 1968.
He has published using fluid-mechanical principles in applications to the Earth sciences: in meteorology, oceanography and geology. He was a member of the Editorial Board of the Journal of Fluid Mechanics (1970–1992) and the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society (series A), 1994–99, and has been on the Council of the Royal Society (2001–03). He was Chairman of a Royal Society Working Group on bioterrorism, which produced a Report entitled 'Making the UK Safer', on 21 April 2004. He was also chair of the European Academies Science Advisory Committee (EASAC) Working Group which produced a report of the European Parliament and President on carbon capture and storage. He was awarded the 2011 Bakerian lecture for his research into geological fluid dynamics. Since 1990 he has held a part-time Professorship at the University of New South Wales in Sydney, Australia.
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