Martin Bott

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Martin Bott
Born
Martin Harold Phillips Bott

(1926-07-12)12 July 1926[2]
Died20 October 2018(2018-10-20) (aged 92)
CitizenshipBritish
Alma materUniversity of Cambridge (MA, PhD)
Awards
Scientific career
Institutions
Anthony Watts[1]

Martin Harold Phillips Bott

Earth Sciences at the University of Durham, England.[4][5]

Education

Bott was educated at Clayesmore School in Dorset and Magdalene College, Cambridge, where he was awarded a Master of Arts degree and PhD.[2][6]

Career

Bott worked throughout his academic career at the University of Durham. In 1954 he started as Turner & Newall Research Fellow. In 1956 he received an appointment as lecturer in Geophysics, was promoted to Reader in Geophysics in 1963 and in 1966 appointed Professor of Geophysics.[4] This place he held until his retirement in 1988, interrupted only in 1970 by a year abroad at the Lamont–Doherty Geological Observatory of Columbia University.

Research

Bott dealt first with the interpretation of magnetic and gravimetric anomalies in England, including Devon and Cornwall[7] and in the eastern Alps.[8] In the late 1950s he began studies on the mechanism of geological disturbances,[7] and published work on various problems in relation to the structure of the crust.[9]

In the 1960s Bott published papers on the use of digital computation methods for solving geophysical problems[10] and further work on the structure of the crust, regional geophysical studies in England and Ireland. In the early 1970s he published his textbook The Interior of the Earth, in which he summarised the current knowledge about the structure of the earth.[10] In addition to theoretical work on the interpretation of magnetic and gravimetric anomalies that appeared over the next few years, he published other geophysical papers on regions such as the Faroe Islands,[11] South Greenland[12] and the Lesser Antilles.[13] Even after his retirement, he remained true to his research and published numerous scientific papers and books.[14][15][16][17][18] [19][20][21]

Awards and honours

Bott was elected a

upper mantle, and has proposed a new explanation for cyclic sedimentation. Since the advent of digital computers he has developed a wide range of computer techniques for the interpretation of gravity and magnetic anomalies, of very general applicability. His classic earlier studies of crustal structure in northern England and the Cornubian peninsular have been extended off-shore, notably to the Irish Sea, the continental shelf area north-west of Scotland, and the Iceland-Faroes ridge, all of these studies contributing very significantly to a better understanding of the origin and evolution of the North Atlantic basin and margins in the vicinity of the British Isles.[23]

Personal life

Bott was a Vice-President of Christians in Science.[24]

He died on 20 October 2018 at the age of 92.[25]

References

  1. Watts, Anthony Brian (1970). Geophysical investigations in the Faeroes to Scotland region, Northeast Atlantic
    (PhD thesis). University of Durham.
  2. ^ a b "BOTT, Prof. Martin Harold Phillips". Who's Who. Vol. 2014 (online Oxford University Press ed.). A & C Black. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
  3. ^
    doi:10.1098/rsbm.2019.0009
    .
  4. ^ a b "Prof Martin H. P. Bott". Durham University. 2011. Retrieved 10 February 2008.
  5. ^ Martin Bott's publications indexed by the Scopus bibliographic database. (subscription required)
  6. ^ Bott, Martin Harold Phillips (1954). Part I. The deep structure of Northumberland and Co. Durham. Part II. A geophysical study of the granites in relation to crystal structure (PhD thesis). University of Cambridge. (subscription required)
  7. ^
    S2CID 128578859
    .
  8. ^ Interpretation of the gravity field of the Eastern Alps. MHP Bott – Geological Magazine, 1954 – Cambridge Univ Press
  9. S2CID 130570943
    .
  10. ^
    doi:10.1111/j.1365-246X.1960.tb00065.x
    .
  11. S2CID 4274999
    .
  12. doi:10.1111/j.1365-246X.1977.tb01282.x
    .
  13. doi:10.1038/physci244118a0
    .
  14. ISBN 0-7131-2274-9
  15. ISBN 0-444-41549-1
    (as editor) (also issued as: Tectonophysics; vol. 36, nos. 1–3)
  16. ISBN 0-7131-2842-9
  17. ISBN 0-306-41019-2
    (as joint editor)
  18. Weardale granite
    . OUGS Journal 24.
  19. hdl:10400.1/11125
    .
  20. S2CID 129807173
    .
  21. doi:10.1016/j.tecto.2004.06.010
    .
  22. ISBN 978-0-19-861412-8. Retrieved 13 February 2009. (Subscription or UK public library membership
    required.)
  23. ^ "EC/1977/08: Bott, Martin Harold Phillips Library and Archive Catalogue". London: The Royal Society. Archived from the original on 9 July 2019.
  24. ^ CIS Vice-Presidents Archived 19 August 2008 at the Wayback Machine
  25. ^ Professor Martin Bott
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