Geophysics

The Department of Geophysics was inaugurated in 1969 with Alan H. Cook as the first Professor of Geophysics. He was succeeded by Ken Creer in 1973. Prof Kathy Whaler, the current holder of the Chair of Geophysics, joined the Department in 1994.

The Department of Geophysics was initially housed in a Victorian villa in South Oswald Road. From there it moved to the James Clerk Maxwell Building.

In 1989, the Department of Geophysics combined with the Department of Geology to become the Department of Geology and Geophysics. The new department became part of the merged Faculty of Science and Engineering in 1991. Following the Reconstitution of Faculties into Colleges in 2002, both Geology and Geophysics have been taught within the School of GeoSciences in the College of Science and Engineering.

Professors of Geophysics

Alan H. Cook, 1869-

Kenneth Midworth Creer (1925- ), 1973-

Kathy Waller, 1994-present

Sources

• Sir Alexander Grant, The Story of the University of Edinburgh during its First Three Hundred Years, 2 vols (London: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1884)
• A History of the School of GeoSciences (accessed 17 June 2014)
• A. Logan Turner, 'The Faculty of Science', in A. Logan Turner (ed.), History of the University of Edinburgh 1883-1933 (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 1933), pp. 239-83.