Timothy Eglinton
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Timothy Eglinton in 2014, portrait via the Royal Society
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| Born | Timothy Ian Eglinton |
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| Thesis | An investigation of kerogens using pyrolysis methods (1988) |
| Notable awards | FRS (2014)[1] |
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Timothy Ian Eglinton FRS[1] is a Professor of Biogeoscience at the Geological Institute, ETH Zürich.[2][3]
Education
Eglinton was educated at Plymouth Polytechnic where he was awarded a Bachelor of Science degree in Environmental science in 1982. He went on to study at Newcastle University, where he was awarded a Master of Science degree and a PhD in 1988 for research investigating kerogens using pyrolysis.[4]
Research
Eglinton's research[2][3][5][6][7][8][9][10] is: <templatestyles src="Template:Blockquote/styles.css" />
focussed on understanding of the processes that govern the Earth’s carbon cycle from the molecular level to the global scale, and on the legacy of past biological activity and environmental conditions contained in organic signatures preserved in the geologic record.[11]
Awards and honours
Eglinton was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 2014. His nomination reads: <templatestyles src="Template:Blockquote/styles.css" />
Professor Timothy Eglinton has revolutionized studies of Earth's carbon cycle. By developing an entirely new means of tracing the pathways of organic carbon in surface environments, ranging from eroding landforms to rivers, floodplains, the oceanic water column, microbial communities and marine sediments, he has replaced countless estimates and assumptions with accurately known transport times and carbon budgets. His findings have illuminated and reconciled formerly discrepant paleoclimatic records, revealed new forms of microbial life, demonstrated that microorganisms can attack and remobilise billion-year-old organic material, and traced the pathways of petroleum-derived carbon in surface environments.[1]
Personal life
Eglinton is the son of the organic chemist Geoffrey Eglinton FRS.[1][12][13] he is married to Lorraine Eglinton, and has two daughters and one son.
References
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- ↑ Professor Dr. Timothy Ian Eglinton, Geologisches Institut, ETH Zürich
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- ↑ Timothy I. Eglinton, Oceanus magazine, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
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