Keith O'Nions

Keith O'Nions

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He studied geology as an undergraduate at the University of Nottingham, receiving a PhD at the University of Alberta before taking up a postdoctoral position at the University of Oslo. He taught geochemistry at the University of Oxford from 1971 to 1975, when he became a professor of geology at Columbia University, a post he held until 1979 when he became a Royal Society Research Professor at the University of Cambridge. He remained there until 1995, when he returned to Oxford to take up his current professorship.

He was knighted in 1999, and from 2000 to 2004 he was Chief Scientific Adviser to the Ministry of Defence.

References

* [http://www.dti.gov.uk/innovation/technologystrategy/tsb/page18351.html Biography] , Department of Trade and Industry


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