Herbert Huppert

Herbert Eric Huppert (born 26 November 1943) is an Australian-born geophysicist living in Britain. He has been Professor of Theoretical Geophysics and Foundation Director, Institute of Theoretical Geophysics, Cambridge University, since 1989 and Fellow of King's College, Cambridge, since 1970.

He was born in Sydney, Australia and he received his early education at Sydney Boys High School (1956–59).[1] He graduated in Applied Mathematics from Sydney University with first class Honours, a University medal and the Barker Travelling Fellowship in 1964. He then completed a Ph.D. under John W. Miles at the University of California, San Diego,[2] and came as an ICI Post-doctoral Fellow to DAMTP in Cambridge in 1968.

He has published using fluid-mechanical principles in applications to the Earth sciences: in meteorology, oceanography and geology. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1987. In 2005 he was the only non-American recipient of a prize from the United States National Academy of Sciences, being awarded the Arthur L. Day Prize and Lectureship for contributions to the Earth sciences. He has been elected a Fellow of the American Geophysical Union, the American Physical Society and the Academia Europaea. He was a member of the editorial board of the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society (series A), 1994–99, and has been on the Council of the Royal Society (2001-3). He was Chairman of a Royal Society Working Group on bioterrorism, which produced a Report entitled 'Making the UK Safer', on 21 April 2004. He was also chair of the European Academies Science Advisory Committee (EASAC) Working Group which produced a report of the European Parliament and President on carbon capture and storage. He was awarded the 2011 Bakerian lecture for his research into geological fluid dynamics.[3]

His wife, Felicia Huppert, is an Emerita Professor of Psychology and a past fellow of Darwin College, Cambridge.[4] His sons, Julian and Rowan, studied at Cambridge University. Julian Huppert was the Liberal Democrat Member of Parliament for Cambridge from 2010-15.

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  1. ↑ http://www.shsobu.org.au/wp-content/uploads/professors.pdf
  2. ↑ Herbert Eric Huppert at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
  3. ↑ http://royalsociety.org/Bakerian-Lecture/
  4. ↑ "Professor Felicia Huppert". University of Cambridge, Department of Psychiatry. Retrieved 2010-05-18.

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