William Fyfe

William Sefton Fyfe CC (born June 4, 1927) is a Canadian geologist and Professor Emeritus in the department of Earth Sciences at the University of Western Ontario. He is widely considered the world’s most eminent geochemist.

Born in Ashburn, New Zealand, he received his B.Sc. in 1948, his M.Sc. in 1949, and his Ph.D. in 1952 all from the University of Otago, where he taught in the Geology department as a lecturer. He performed research at the University of California, Los Angeles and the University of California, Berkeley. He was a Professor at Berkeley, Imperial College London and the University of Manchester before arriving at the University of Western Ontario in 1972. From 1986 until 1990 he was Dean of Science at the University of Western Ontario.

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In 1969 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society
Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada
In 1981 he was awarded the Geological Association of Canada's highest honour, the Logan Medal.
In 1985 he was awarded the Royal Society of Canada's Willet G. Miller Medal.
In 1989 he was made a Companion of the Order of Canada.
In 1990 he was awarded the Geological Society of America's Arthur L. Day Medal.
In 1992 he was awarded the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council (NSERC) Gerhard Herzberg Canada Gold Medal for Science and Engineering.
In 2000 he was awarded the Geological Society's Wollaston Medal.
Asteroid 15846 BillFyfe is named in his honour.