Philippa Margaret Black (born 26 November 1941) is a New Zealand academic specialising in geology, specifically mineralogy and metamorphic petrology. Black was born on 26 November 1941 in Hamilton. She is the daughter of Dorothy May () and James Corbett Black. She received her education at Taupiri Primary School, St Paul's Catholic School (primary school in

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), and New Plymouth Girls' High School. She studied at the

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and earned a MSc and

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in geology. The title of her 1964 master's thesis was ''Igneous and metamorphic rocks from Tokatoka, Northland''. Her PhD focused on the Tokatea Reef in the hills behind Coromandel township and the title of her doctoral thesis was ''Petrology of the Cuvier and Paritu Plutons and their metamorphic Aureoles''.Exhibition notes to company The Art of Science, a joint exhibition of the

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and the New Zealand Portrait Gallery, curated by Rebecca Priestley, touring New Zealand 2011–2013. She later got an MA in History. She was appointed a professor at the University of Auckland in 1986 and headed the department for 15 years. Between 1993 and 1997, Black was president of the

, the first woman to hold the role. In the 1996 Queen's Birthday Honours, she was appointed a

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, for services to science. In 2013, after her retirement, she was elected Companion to the

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(IPENZ). In 2017, she was selected as one of the Royal Society Te Apārangi's

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, celebrating the contribution of women to knowledge in New Zealand.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Black, Philippa 1941 births Living people New Zealand women academics Presidents of the Royal Society of New Zealand 20th-century New Zealand geologists University of Auckland alumni Academic staff of the University of Auckland Companions of the New Zealand Order of Merit Scientists from Auckland People educated at New Plymouth Girls' High School 21st-century New Zealand geologists