biography
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Runcorn, (Stanley) Keith
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| sex:
| male
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| lived:
| (1922–95)
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| biography:
| Geophysicist, born in Southport, Lancashire, NW England, UK. He studied at Cambridge, worked at the Radar Research Establishment (1943–6), held posts in physics at Manchester (1946–9) and geophysics at Cambridge and Los Angeles (1949–55), and became professor of physics at Newcastle University (1956–88). He is best known for his studies of terrestrial magnetism, by which he helped to confirm the theory of continental drift. |
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