Keith O'Nions

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Sir Robert Keith O'Nions
Born (1944-09-26) 26 September 1944 (age 79)
HonFREng[1] (2005)
Scientific career
InstitutionsUniversity of Alberta
University of Oslo
University of Oxford
Imperial College London
Columbia University
University of Cambridge
ThesisGeochronology of the Bamble sector of the Baltic Shield, South Norway (1969)
Doctoral advisorRoger D. Morton

Sir Robert Keith O'Nions

HonFREng[1] (born 26 September 1944),[2] is a British scientist and ex-President & Rector of Imperial College London. He is the former Director General of the Research Councils UK as well as Professor of the Physics and Chemistry of Minerals and Head of the Department of Earth Sciences at the University of Oxford.[3]

Early life

O'Nions attended

PhD at the University of Alberta before taking up a postdoctoral position at the University of Oslo
.

Career

O'Nions taught geochemistry at the University of Oxford from 1971 to 1975, before moving to Columbia University as Professor of Geology. In 1979 when he was appointed Royal Society Research Professor at the University of Cambridge. He remained in Cambridge until 1995, when he returned to Oxford to take up the Professorship of Physics and Chemistry of Minerals.

He was

Imperial College, London in July 2008.[4]

On 1 January 2010, following the resignation of Sir

Rector of Imperial College London,[3] and in July 2010 he was appointed to a full term as Rector, to run until September 2014.[5]
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Honours and awards

Year Honour awarded
1999 Knight Bachelor - Services to Earth Science (Birthday Honours)
2000 Honorary Fellow, University of Cardiff
2004 Honorary Doctor of Science, Herriot-Watt University
2005 Honorary Doctor of Science, University of Glasgow
2005 Honorary Doctor of Science, Royal Holloway
2005 Docteur Honoris Causa, University of Paris
2006 Honorary Doctor of Science, Loughborough University
2007 Honorary Doctor of Science, University of Alberta
2007 Honorary Doctor of Science, University of Edinburgh
2007 Honorary Doctor of Science, Abertay University
2009 Honorary Doctor of Science, University of Nottingham
2010 Honorary Doctor of Science, University of Birmingham
2018 Honorary Doctor of Science, Imperial College London
2019 Honorary Doctor of Letters, Nanyang Technological University

Awards

In 1979, O'Nions was awarded the

Rutherford Lecturer by the Royal Society and William Smith Lecturer by the Geological Society of London
.

O'Nions was further named Ingerson Lecturer by the

HonFREng[1] of the Royal Academy of Engineering[1] in 2005. He is a member of the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters.[6]

In September 2017 he was appointed by Natural Environment Research Council as Chair of the new British Geological Survey board.[7] O'Nions served on the Board of A*Star, Singapore from 2013 to 2021, was Chair of Cambridge Enterprise from 2014 to 2020 and is Chair of Council, University of Nottingham.

Personal life

In 1967 he married Rita Bill with whom he has had three daughters.[2]

References

  1. ^ a b c d "List of Fellows". Archived from the original on 8 June 2016. Retrieved 29 October 2014.
  2. ^
    ISBN 1-85743-217-7
    .
  3. ^
    Imperial College, London
    , UK.
  4. Imperial College, London
    , 22 July 2008.
  5. ^ Sir Keith O’Nions appointed Rector of Imperial College London, News release, Imperial College, 9 July 2010.
  6. ^ "Gruppe 3: Geofag" (in Norwegian). Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters. Archived from the original on 27 September 2011. Retrieved 7 October 2010.
  7. ^ "New board created for the British Geological Survey" (PDF). Retrieved 18 April 2019.

External links

Academic offices
Preceded by
Rector of Imperial College London

2010 – 2014 		Succeeded by
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