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Nicholas John Shackleton (23rd June 1937 - 24th January 2006) was a geologist specialising in the Quaternary Period. He was 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. A geologist is a contributor to the science of geology, studying the physical structure and processes of the Earth. ...
The Quaternary Period is the geologic time period from the end of the Pliocene Epoch roughly 1. ...
The Department of Earth Sciences at Cambridge is the University of Cambridges Earth Sciences department. ...
The University of Cambridge is the second-oldest university in the English-speaking world, with one of the most selective sets of entry requirements in the United Kingdom. ...
Variations in CO2, temperature and dust from the Vostok ice core over the last 400 000 years Climate change refers to the variation in the Earths global climate or regional climates over time. ...
Aletsch glacier, Switzerland A glacier is a large, long-lasting river of ice that is formed on land and moves in response to gravity. ...
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. This article or section should be merged with Orbital forcing Milankovitch cycles is the name given to the collective effect of changes in the Earths movements upon its climate. ...
In 1998, he was knighted in recognition of his services to Earth Sciences.
He also had a fine collection of early clarinets and other woodwind instruments, which he played and studied. A bass clarinet, which sounds an octave lower than the more common Bb soprano clarinet. ...
A woodwind instrument is a musical instrument in which sound is produced by blowing through a mouthpiece against an edge or by a vibrating reed, and in which the pitch is varied by opening or closing holes in the body of the instrument. ...
Awards
The premises of the Royal Society in London. ...
The Wollaston Medal is a scientific award for geology, the highest award granted by the Geological Society of London. ...
The Crafoord Prize was established in 1980 by Holger Crafoord, the inventor of the artificial kidney, and his wife Anna-Greta Crafoord. ...
Willi Dansgaard, (1922-). Palaeoclimatologist. ...
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