Hello Everyone,

While researching how one receives the Crafoord Prize and came across information on the man who is probably the most celebrated geoscientist in the world, Professor Sir Nicholas Shackleton. I think Chris would be highly interested in his work. Here is a short list of his accomplishments and a little bio about him. (Take note, he plays music.) His citations and papers can be found at the link below. Hopefully he will be willing to tell me how one receives the Crafoord Prize in the near future....Petra

Professor Sir Nicholas John Shackleton

Nicholas John Shackleton is a geologist specialising in the Quaternary Period. He is a Professor in the Department of Earth Sciences at the University of Cambridge, working in the Godwin Institute for Quaternary Research. His studies have included an investigation of historic climate change based on an analysis of glacial ice.

He is probably best known for his contribution to the "Hayes, Imbrie and Shackleton" paper in Science in 1976 which, using ocean sediment cores, demonstrated that milankovitch cycles caused the glacial-interglacial cycles of the past few million years.

He also has a fine collection of early clarinets and other woodwind instruments, which he plays and studies.

Awards

1985 Fellow of The Royal Society

1985 Shepard Medal (SEPM,for 'Excellence in Marine Geology')

1985 Carus Medal (Deutsche Akademie für Naturforscher 'Leopoldina')

1987 Lyell Medal (Geological Society of London)

1988 Founding Member Academia Europaea

1990 Fellow, American Geophysical Union

1990 Huntsman Medal for Excellence in the Marine Sciences (Bedford Institute of Oceanography, Canada)

1995 Crafoord Prize (Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences)

1996 Honorary Doctor of Laws, Dalhousie University

1996 Wollaston Medal (Geological Society of London)

1997 Honorary Doctor of Philosophy, Stockholm University

1998 Knighthood (for services to the Earth Sciences)

1999 Milankovitch Medal (European Geophysical Society)

2000 Foreign Associate, US National Academy of Sciences

2001 Foreign Member, Royal Netherlands Society of Arts and Sciences

2002 Honorary Doctorate, Geology, Padova University, Italy

2002 Ewing Medal, American Geophysical Union

2003 Honorary Member, EUG

2003 Urey Medal, European Association of Geochemistry

2003 Royal Medal (Royal Society of London)

• CV Sir Nicholas Shackleton