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John Imbrie
Born
(1925-07-04)July 4, 1925
Penn Yan, New York, U.S.
Died
May 13, 2016(2016-05-13) (aged 90)
Providence, Rhode Island, U.S.
Alma mater
Princeton University (B.S.) Yale University (Ph.D.)
Awards
Maurice Ewing Medal (1986) Lyell Medal (1991) Vetlesen Prize (1996) Vega Medal (1999) Milutin Milankovic Medal (2003)
Scientific career
Fields
Geology, oceanography
Thesis
Protremate Brachiopods of the Traverse Group 'Devonian' of Michigan (1951)
John Imbrie (July 4, 1925 – May 13, 2016) was an American paleoceanographer best known for his work on the theory of ice ages. He was the grandson of William Imbrie, an American missionary to Japan.
After serving with the 10th Mountain Division in Italy during World War II, Imbrie earned his bachelor's degree from Princeton University. He then went on to receive a Ph.D. from Yale University in 1951. He was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 1978,[1] and both the American Philosophical Society and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1981.[2][3] That same year, he was the recipient of a MacArthur Fellowship. He was awarded the Maurice Ewing Medal in 1986 by the AGU and the William H. Twenhofel Medal by the Society for Sedimentary Geology in 1991, the only time the Society has awarded it to a non-member. Imbrie was on the faculty of the Geological Sciences Department at Brown University from 1967,[4] where he held the Henry L. Doherty chair of Oceanography. He later served as Professor Emeritus at Brown.[5]
Imbrie is probably best known as a co-author of the paper in Science in 1976, 'Variations in the Earth's orbit: Pacemaker of the ice ages'.[6] Using ocean sediment cores, the Science paper verified the theories of Milutin Milanković that oscillations in climate over the past few million years are correlated with Earth's orbital variations of eccentricity, axial tilt, and precession around the Sun. These changes are now called the Milankovitch cycles. He became a recipient of the Milutin Milankovic Medal with George Kukla in 2003.[7]
John Imbrie was featured in the video documentary The Last Ridge: The Uphill Battles of the 10th Mountain Division.[8]
He died in Providence, Rhode Island, in 2016 at the age of 90.[9]
^"APS Member History". search.amphilsoc.org. Retrieved 2022-06-13.
^"John Imbrie". American Academy of Arts & Sciences. Retrieved 2022-06-13.
^Yale Science and Engineering Alumni Hall of Achievement web page, accessed April 9, 2008 Archived May 18, 2011, at the Wayback Machine
^Emeritus Faculty Roster web page, Geological Sciences Department, Brown University, accessed April 9, 2008 Archived March 29, 2008, at the Wayback Machine
^Hays, J. D.; Imbrie, J.; Shackleton, N. J. (1976). "Variations in the Earth's Orbit: Pacemaker of the Ice Ages". Science. 194 (4270): 1121–1132. Bibcode:1976Sci...194.1121H. doi:10.1126/science.194.4270.1121. PMID 17790893. S2CID 667291.
^"EGU - Awards & medals - Milutin Milankovic Medal". European Geosciences Union. Retrieved 18 May 2018.
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