Peter John Wyllie, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

    

Peter John Wyllie

American mineralogist

Date of Birth: 08-Feb-1930

Place of Birth: London

Profession: geologist, university teacher, mineralogist

Nationality: United Kingdom

Zodiac Sign: Aquarius


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About Peter John Wyllie

  • Peter John Wyllie (born 8 February 1930, in London, England) is a British petrologist and academic.
  • He was Professor of Geology at the California Institute of Technology from 1983 until his retirement in 1999.
  • Prior to this, he held positions at the University of St Andrews (1955–56), Pennsylvania State University (1958–59 and 1961–66), the University of Leeds (1959–61), and the University of Chicago (1965–83).
  • He is well known for his many contributions to the understanding of magmatism, particularly through his work on the experimental petrology of magmas and volatiles.
  • In the early 1970s, Wyllie wrote two widely used textbooks; The Dynamic Earth (1971) and The Way the Earth Works (1976) which integrated the new understanding of magmatism and plate tectonics.
  • He is also famous for his contributions to the coverage of earth sciences in the Encyclopædia Britannica, particularly his outline of the field in Part Two of the Propædia.
  • Wylie was President of the International Union of Geodesy and Geophysics (IUGG) from 1995 to 1999.

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