Trevor Elliott (26 August 1949 – 28 January 2013) was a British geoscientist, professor, and winner of the

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Early life and career

Elliott was born in Lancashire. He received his BSc in Geology from the

University College of Swansea , former_names=University College of Swansea, University of Wales Swansea , motto= cy, Gweddw crefft heb ei dawn , mottoeng="Technical skill is bereft without culture" , established=1920 – University College of Swansea 1996 – University of Wa ...

in 1970, and his DPhil from the University of Oxford in 1974. He was a Royal Society postdoctoral fellow at the University of Leiden, and also carried out postdoctoral studies at the University of Reading. In 1976 he became Lecturer in

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at the University College of Swansea, and in 1984 he was appointed George Herdman Professor of Geology at the University of Liverpool, where he remained for more than twenty years. He was a visiting professor at both Iowa State University (on a

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), and Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and Distinguished Lecturer of the American Association of Petroleum Geologists. In 1989 he was awarded the Bigsby Medal by the Geological Society of London.

Personal life

He was married to

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, director of Liverpool University's Institute of Irish Studies.

References

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