Nicholas Shackleton

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British geologist (1937-2006)

United Kingdom ScientistsLived 1937 to 2006 · aged 68

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Sir Nicholas John Shackleton was an English geologist and paleoclimatologist who specialised in the Quaternary Period. He was the son of the distinguished field geologist Robert Millner Shackleton and great-nephew of the explorer Ernest Shackleton.

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The Glacial effect describes the change of the oxygen isotope composition of sea water, due to growing ice sheets in high latitudes during glacials.

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2005Blue Planet Prize

2005Founder’s Medal

2004Vetlesen Prize

2004Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science

2003Royal Medal

2003H. C. Urey Award

2002honorary doctor of the University of Padua

2002Maurice Ewing Medal

1999Milutin Milankovic Medal

1998Knight Bachelor

1997Philosophiae doctor (Norway)

1996Doctor of Law (honorary)

1996Wollaston Medal

1995Crafoord Prize in Geosciences

1990A.G. Huntsman Award for Excellence in the Marine Sciences

1987Lyell Medal

1985Carus medal

1985Francis P. Shepard Medal

Fellow of the American Geophysical Union

Foreign Member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences

Honorary Fellow of the European Union of Geosciences

Connected to Nicholas 6

Wilhelm RouxAlso won Philosophiae doctor (Norway)

Jillian BanfieldAlso won H. C. Urey Award

Charles Douglas-Home, 13th Earl of HomeAlso won Doctor of Law (honorary)

George BuskAlso won Lyell Medal

Katja BeckerAlso won Carus medal Carl WunschAlso won A.G. Huntsman Award for Excellence in the Marine Sciences

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