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Professor Herbert Eric Huppert FRS
University of Cambridge | University of New South Wales
Herbert Huppert (b. 1943, Sydney) is a British geophysicist renowned for his pioneering work applying fluid mechanics to the Earth sciences, with contributions spanning meteorology, oceanography, and geology. He has been Professor of Theoretical Geophysics and the Founding Director of the Institute of Theoretical Geophysics at the University of Cambridge since 1989, and a Fellow of King’s College, Cambridge, since 1970. He has held a part-time Professorship at the University of New South Wales since 1990.
Elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1987, Huppert has served on its Council and chaired influential working groups on bioterrorism and carbon capture and storage. His distinctions include the Arthur L. Day Prize and Lectureship from the US National Academy of Sciences (2005), the Bakerian Lecture (2011), and a Royal Medal (2020). He is also a Fellow of the American Geophysical Union, the American Physical Society, and the Academia Europaea.