Kurt Lambeck#
| Membership Number: | 1902 |
| Membership type: | FOREIGN |
| Section: | EARTH & COSMIC SCIENCES |
| Elected: | 1999 |
| Main Country of Residence: | AUSTRALIA |
| Homepage(s): | http://people.rses.anu.edu.au/lambeck_k |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2006-2010 President, Australian Academy of Science
- since 2007 Emeritus Professor, Australian National University
- 1977-2007 Professor of Geophysics, Research School of Earth Sciences, The Australian National University
- 1984-1993 and 1998 Director, Research School of Earth Sciences, The Australian National University
- 1973-1977 Professeur Associé, Departement des Sciences de la Terre, University of Paris VII, and Institut de Physique du Globe, University of Paris VI. France
- 1970-1973 Directeur Scientifique, Groupe de Recherches de Geodesie Spatiale, Observatoire de Paris, France
- 1967-1970 Geodesist, Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory and Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
- 1967 D.Phil., University of Oxford. Thesis: Precise geodetic position determination with the use of artificial satellites
Fields of Scholarship
- Tectonics
- Geology
- Geodynamics
- Geodesy
- Glaciology
- Palaeoclimatology
- Geophysics
Honours and Awards
- 1976 Macelwane Medal, American Geophysical Union
- 1976 Fellow, American Geophysical Union
- 1984 Fellow, Australian Academy of Science
- 1987 Honorary Member, European Geophysical Society
- 1989 Sir Harold Jeffreys Lecturer, Royal Astronomical Society. This is the senior lecture in geophysics awarded biennially by the Royal Astronomical Society
- 1993 Charles A. Whitten Medal, American Geophysical Union
- 1993 Foreign Member, Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences
- 1993 F.C. Donders Professorship, University of Utrecht, Netherlands
- 1994 Doctor of Engineering honoris causa, National Technical University of Athens
- 1994 Foreign Member, Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters
- 1994 Fellow, Royal Society of London
- 1995 Jaeger Medal, Australian Academy of Science
- 1996 Antiquity Prize, British journal for prehistory and archaeology
- 1997 Alfred Wegener Medal, European Union of Geosciences
- 1999 Foreign Member, Academia Europaea
- 1999 Doctor of Science honoris causa, University of New South Wales
- 2001 Tage Erlander Professorship, Swedish Research Council
- 2001 Prix George Lemaître, Université catholique de Louvain
- 2003 Australian Federation Medal
- 2004 Elected Associate of the Royal Astronomical Society
- 2004 Japan Society for Promotion of Science Award for Eminent Scientist
- 2005 Foreign Member, Académie des Sciences, Institut de France
- 2007 Honorary Professor, Graduate University of the Chinese Academy of Science
- 2009 Foreign Member, US National Academy of Sciences
- 2012 Balzan Prize
- 2013 Chevalier de la Légion d'honneur
- 2013 Wollaston MedalLambeck, the highest award granted by the Geological Society of London
