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Leigh "Wiki " H. Royden is an American Geologist .
Early life [ edit ]
Royden was born in Palo Alto, California . Royden's father was Halsey Royden , a mathematician.
Education [ edit ]
Royden received an A.B. degree in physics from Harvard University and a PhD in geology and geophysics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).
Royden became a member of the faculty at MIT in 1988. She is director of MIT's Experimental Study Group .[1] [2]
Royden has published important papers on thermal subsidence at the northeastern continental margin of North America and on retreating subduction boundaries formed during the collision of continental tectonic plates .[1]
In 1990, she was awarded the Donath Medal (Young Scientist Award) by the Geological Society of America . Royden was named a fellow of the American Geophysical Union in 2004.[3] [1] Stephan Mueller Medal by the European Geosciences Union .[2] American Academy of Arts and Sciences .[4]
In 1994, Royden was one of 16 women faculty in the School of Science at MIT who drafted and co-signed a letter to the then-Dean of Science (now Chancellor of Berkeley) Robert Birgeneau, which started a campaign to highlight and challenge gender discrimination at MIT.[5]
References [ edit ]
^ "Fellows - Tectonophysics" . American Geophysical Union . Retrieved 2018-10-29 .
^ "Royden, Seager Elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences" . MIT. April 18, 2018.
^ Zernike, Kate (2023). The Exceptions: Nancy Hopkins, MIT, and the Fight for Women in Science . New York, NY: Scribner. ISBN 978-1-9821-3183-8
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