John Suppe
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John Suppe is an American geologist, Professor of Geology at National Taiwan University and Princeton University.
He received at B.A. from the University of California, Riverside, and a Ph.d. from Yale University. He joined the Princeton faculty in 1971, and was chair of the Department of Geology from 1991 to 1993. He transferred to emeritus status in 2007. [1]
Suppe's research speciality is tectonics, and he is best known for his work on the formation of mountain belts in California and Taiwan. He was a NASA Guest Investigator for in the analysis of the Venus images from the Magellan mission to that planet.
After Aguest, 2007, he becomes a Distinguished Chair Research Professor at National Taiwan University. He was a visiting professor at the California Institute of Technology and Barcelona University. He is a member of the United States National Academy of Sciences. and received the Wilbur Lucius Cross Medal from the Yale Graduate School,and the Best Publication Award in Structural Geology and Tectonics from the Geological Society of America.
He is also a Christian who has written on the relationship of Science and religion in article like Thoughts on the Epistemology of Christianity in Light of Science.[2]
[edit] References
- ^ Princeton Weekly Bulletin, Oct. 22, 2007 [1]
- ^ Affiliation of Christian Geologists
