Sir Nicholas John Shackleton was an English geologist and paleoclimatologist who specialised in the Quaternary Period.
15 Facts About Nicholas Shackleton
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Nicholas Shackleton was the son of the distinguished field geologist Robert Millner Shackleton and great-nephew of the explorer Ernest Shackleton.
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Nicholas Shackleton graduated with the Bachelor of Arts degree in 1961, promoted in 1964 to Master of Arts.
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Nicholas Shackleton became Ad hominem Professor in 1991, in the Department of Earth Sciences, working in the Godwin Institute for Quaternary Research.
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Nicholas Shackleton was a key figure in the field of paleoceanography, publishing over two hundred scientific papers.
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Nicholas Shackleton was a pioneer in the use of mass spectrometry to determine changes in climate as recorded in the oxygen isotope composition of calcareous microfossils.
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Nicholas Shackleton found evidence that the Earth's last magnetic field reversal was 780,000 years ago.
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Nicholas Shackleton became internationally known, in 1976, with the publication of a paper, with James Hays and John Imbrie, in Science entitled "Variations in the Earth's orbit: Pacemaker of the ice ages".
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In September 2000 Nicholas Shackleton published an innovative study of the relationship between the oxygen isotope record of the oceans and isotope records obtained from the ice in Antarctica.
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In 1995 Nicholas Shackleton became Director of the Godwin Institute for Quaternary Research.
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In 2010 Nick Nicholas Shackleton was one of ten scientists depicted on a set of postage stamps, in commemoration of the 350th anniversary of the Royal Society.
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Nicholas Shackleton was a skilled amateur clarinet player, and collector of woodwind instruments.
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Nicholas Shackleton was internationally known as an organologist, reflected in his many journal articles, as well as his contributions to the 1980 and 2001 editions of The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, as well as the Grove Dictionary of Musical Instruments.
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The fine copies, by Cambridge maker Daniel Bangham, of many clarinets in Nicholas Shackleton's collection, had a significant impact on historical performance from the 1980s, and continue to be used by leading performers today.
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From 1986 to 2002, Nicholas Shackleton was married to Vivien Law, a linguistic scholar.