Keith Runcorn Prize

The Keith Runcorn Prize is awarded annually by the Royal Astronomical Society for the best British doctoral thesis in geophysics (including planetary science). The winner receives a cash prize and presents the results of their thesis at a meeting of the Royal Astronomical Society.

The prize is sponsored by Oxford University Press, and since 2007 named after Keith Runcorn, a British physicist whose paleomagnetic reconstruction of the relative motions of Europe and America revived the theory of continental drift.

Recipients Year Name Affiliation 1992 Douglas Stewart University of Leeds 1993 Sara Russell Open University 1994 Tim Henstock University of Cambridge 1995 Graeme Sarson University of Leeds 1996 Tim Horbury Imperial College London 1997 Cathryn Mitchell University of Wales at Aberystwyth 1998 Mark Muller University of Cambridge 1999 Marcus Brüggen 2000 Dave Skeet University of Oxford 2001 2002 Emma Bunce University of Leicester 2003 Clare Watt British Antarctic Survey 2004 Paul Williams University of Oxford 2005 Phillip Livermore University of Leeds 2006 Sophie Bassett University of Durham 2007 Leigh Fletcher University of Oxford 2008 David Jess Queen's University Belfast 2009 David Halliday University of Edinburgh 2010 James Verdon University of Bristol 2011 David Kipping University College London 2012 Sudipta Sarkar University of Southampton 2013 Richard Walters University of Leeds 2014 Hannah Christensen (née Arnold) University of Oxford 2015 Matteo Ravasi University of Edinburgh 2016 Rishy Mistry Imperial College

See also List of geophysics awards List of prizes named after people

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