Identity area
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Person
Authorized form of name
Ringwood, Alfred Edward
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- Professor Ted Ringwood MSc PhD (Melb) FAA FRS
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Dates of existence
1930 - 1993
History
Alfred Edward (Ted) Ringwood was born in Kew, Melbourne on 19 April 1930. He attended Hawthorn West State School, then Geelong Grammar School and Trinity College, and the University of Melbourne receiving the degrees of BSc (1st class Honours in Geology) in 1950, MSc with Honours in 1953, and PhD in 1956 . He then took up a Research Fellowship at Harvard University from 1957-1958. In November 1958 he was appointed to the Australian National University as Senior Research Fellow, Department of Geophysics, Research School of Physical Sciences; Professor, Department of Geophysics, Research School of Physical Sciences 1963; Professor of Geochemistry, Department of Geophysics and Geochemistry, Research School of Physical Sciences 1967-1972; Principal Investigator for Lunar Samples, NASA 1968-1985; Professor of Geochemistry, Research School of Earth Sciences 1972-1993; Andrew D. White Professor-at-large, Cornell University 1974-1980; Director, Research School of Earth Sciences 1978-1983. Ringwood died on 12 November 1993.
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academic; geophysicist; university administrator
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Prepared by Maggie Shapley on 6 August 2007; revised on 4 June 2012
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Australian National University Calendar, 1970
CV and biographical memoir by Professor DH Green and bibliography http://www.publish.csiro.au/?act=view_file&file_id=HR9981220247.pdf (accessed on 4 June 2012)