Kurt Lambeck

Summary

Professor Kurt Lambeck AC, FRS, FAA, FRSN (born 20 September 1941 in Utrecht, Netherlands[1]) is Professor of Geophysics at the Australian National University in Canberra, Australia. He has also taught at University of Paris and at Smithsonian and Harvard Observatories.[2]

Portrait photograph of Kurt Lambeck for the 2018 Prime Minister's Prize For Science.

His current research interests include the interactions between ice sheets, oceans and the solid Earth, as well as changes in ocean levels and their impact on human populations.[3]

Honours and awards edit

Lambeck was President of the Australian Academy of Science from 2006 to 2010. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of London and the Royal Society of New South Wales,[4] as well as the recipient of many prestigious international awards.[3] He is a member of the French Academy of Science, the US National Academy of Sciences, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Academia Europaea, and the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters.[5] Lambeck is a foreign member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences since 1993.[6]

References edit

  1. ^ "International Balzan Prize Foundation". Archived from the original on 14 April 2013. Retrieved 7 March 2013.
  2. ^ Biography, Research School of Earth Sciences, anu.edu.au
  3. ^ a b Earth Scientist Elected New President of Science Academy Archived 2008-11-21 at the Wayback Machine, www.science.org.au
  4. ^ "Fellows of RSNSW". RSNSW. Archived from the original on 20 March 2012. Retrieved 25 June 2012.
  5. ^ "Gruppe 3: Geofag" (in Norwegian). Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters. Archived from the original on 27 September 2011. Retrieved 7 October 2010.
  6. ^ "K. Lambeck". Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences. Archived from the original on 8 February 2016. Retrieved 8 February 2016.
  7. ^ "Canberra scientist awarded highest French decoration". ABC. 6 March 2013.
  8. ^ "Australian geologist receives top national honour". Australian Academy of Science. Retrieved 18 September 2015.
  9. ^ Osborne, Tegan (17 October 2018). "Geophysicist who helped make GPS accurate gets top PM Science Prize". ABC News. Retrieved 17 October 2018.
  10. ^ "Emeritus Professor Kurt Lambeck AO". It's An Honour. Retrieved 13 June 2021.