Peter Wyllie#
| Membership Number: | 1755 |
| Membership type: | FOREIGN |
| Section: | EARTH & COSMIC SCIENCES |
| Elected: | 1996 |
| Main Country of Residence: | UNITED STATES |
| Homepage(s): | http://www.gps.caltech.edu/~wyllie |
Present and Previous Positions
- 1999 Emeritus Professor
- 1983 - 1999 Professor of Geology, California Institute of Technology, USA
- 1983 - 1987 Chairman, Division of Geological and Planetary Sciences, California Institute of Technology, USA
- 1979 - 1982 Chairman, Dept. of Geophysical Sciences, University of Chicago, USA
- 1965 - 1983 Professor of Petrology and Geochemistry, University of Chicago, USA
- 1961 - 1965 Associate Professor, Petrology, Pennsylvania State University, USA
- 1959 - 1961 Research Fellow, Lecturer, Leeds University, England
- 1958 - 1959 Assistant Professor, Pennsylvania State University, USA
- 1958 Ph.D. Geology. University of St. Andrews
- 1952 - 1954 Geologist with British North Greenland Expedition
Fields of Scholarship
- Experimental petrology
- Origin of granitic, batholiths, andesites, kimberlites, carbonatites, and associated ore deposits
Honours and Awards International Science Academies
- 1984: Fellow of The Royal Society (London)
- 1981: National Academy of Sciences (USA)
- 1988: Russian Academy of Sciences
- 1991: Indian National Science Academy
- 1992: National Academy of Sciences, India
- 1996: Chinese Academy of Sciences
- 1996: Academia Europaea
- 1954: Polar Medal, from H. M. Queen Elizabeth
- 1965: Mineralogical Society of America Award (research before age 35)
- 1982: Wollaston Medal, Geological Society of London
- 1987: Abraham-Gottlob-Werner Medaille, German Mineralogical Society
- 2001: Leopold von Buch Medal, Deutschen Geologischen Gesellschaft
- 2001: Roebling Medal, Mineralogical Society of America
- 1974: Honorary D.Sc., University of St. Andrews
- 1996-present: Honorary Professor, China University of Geosciences, Beijing
- 1977-78: President, Mineralogical Society of America (Vice-President; 1976-77)
- 1986-90: President, International Mineralogical Association, (Vice-President, 1978-86)
- 1995-99: President, International Union of Geodesy and Geophysics, (Vice President, 1991-95)
- Fellow of: American Geophysical Union; Geological Society of America; Mineralogical Society of America; American Academy of Arts and Science
- Honorary Member or Corresponding Fellow of: Edinburgh Geological Society; Mineralogical Society of Great Britain and Ireland; Indian Geophysical Union; Mineralogical Society of Russia; German Geological Society
- Mineral named Wyllieite
