# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/dan-mckenzie
# Generated: 2026-08-13T01:07:58.713Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/dan-mckenzie"
name: "Dan McKenzie"
slug: "dan-mckenzie"
description: "Dan Peter McKenzie is a Professor of Geophysics at the University of Cambridge, and one-time head of the Bullard Laboratories of the Cambridge Department of Earth Sciences. He wrote the first paper defining the mathematical principles of plate tectonics on a sphere, and his early work on mantle convection created the modern discussion of planetary interiors."
tagline: "British geophysicist (born 1942)"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United Kingdom"
  isoCode: "GB"
birthDate: "1942-02-21"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
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  momentum:             0
  historical:           12.88776266666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  35
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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    title: "Dan McKenzie"
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  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dan_McKenzie_(geophysicist)"
    title: "Dan McKenzie (geophysicist)"
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    title: "دن مکنزی (زمین‌شناس)"
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  - url: "https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dan_McKenzie"
    title: "Dan McKenzie"
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    title: "Dan McKenzie"
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    title: "Dan Peter McKenzie"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump