William Lowrie#
| Membership Number: | 2014 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | EARTH & COSMIC SCIENCES |
| Elected: | 2000 |
| Main Country of Residence: | SWITZERLAND |
| Homepage(s): | https://epm.ethz.ch/people/person-detail.html?persid=77648 |
Present and Previous Positions
- 1974 - 2004 Professor of Geophysics, ETH Zürich, Switzerland
- 1970 - 1974 Research Associate, Lamont-Doherty Geol. Observatory, Columbia University, NY, USA
- 1968 - 1970 Research Geophysicist, Gulf Oil Company, Pittsburgh, PA, USA
- 1967 Ph.D., Univ. Pittsburgh, USA
- 1962 - 1964 Secondary School Teacher, Toronto, Canada
- 1962 M.A., Univ. Toronto, Canada
- 1961 Geophysicist, Sherritt Gordon Mines, Lynn Lake, Manitoba, Canada
- 1960 B.Sc., University of Edinburgh, Scotland
Fields of Scholarship
- Geophysics
- Rock magnetism
- Paleomagnetism
Honours and Awards
- 1990 Fellow, American Geophysical Union
- 1995 Cox Lecture, American Geophysical Union
- 2000 Member, Academia Europaea
