Herbert Eric Huppert was born on 26 November 1943 and is a British geophysicist.
12 Facts About Herbert Huppert
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Herbert Huppert 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.
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Herbert Huppert graduated in applied mathematics from Sydney University with first class Honours, a University medal and the Barker Travelling Fellowship in 1964.
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Herbert Huppert 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.
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Herbert Huppert has published using fluid-mechanical principles in applications to the Earth sciences: in meteorology, oceanography and geology.
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Herbert Huppert was a member of the Editorial Board of the Journal of Fluid Mechanics, the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, The Proceedings of the Royal Society and Geomechanics and Geophysics for Geo-energy and Georesources and has been on the Council of the Royal Society.
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Herbert Huppert was chair of the European Academies Science Advisory Committee Working Group which produced a report of the European Parliament and President on carbon capture and storage.
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Herbert Huppert was awarded the 2011 Bakerian lecture for his research into geological fluid dynamics.
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Herbert Huppert was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1987.
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Herbert Huppert has been elected a Fellow of the American Geophysical Union, the American Physical Society and the Academia Europaea.
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In 1966, Herbert Huppert married Felicia ; she was an Emerita Professor of Psychology and a past fellow of Darwin College, Cambridge.
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Julian Herbert Huppert was the Liberal Democrat Member of Parliament for Cambridge from 2010 to 2015 and is the Foundation Director of the Intellectual Forum of Jesus College, Cambridge.