Ian S. E. Carmichael
Ian Stuart Edward Carmichael, FRS (29 March 1930 –26 August 2011) was a British-born American igneous petrologist and volcanologist who established extensive quantitative methods for research in the thermodynamics of magmas.
Ian Carmichael | |
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| Born | Ian Stuart Edward Carmichael |
| Education | Westminster School |
| Alma mater | University of Cambridge (BA, MA) Imperial College London (PhD) |
| Known for | Thermodynamics of igneous systems |
| Scientific career | |
| Institutions | University of California, Berkeley |
| Thesis | Volcanic geology of Thingmuli, eastern Iceland (1962) |
| Doctoral advisor | George P. L. Walker |
| Notable students | Wes Hildreth, Charles R. Bacon, Mark S. Ghiorso, Jim Luhr, Rebecca Lange |
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