Adam Dziewonski

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Adam Dziewonski was a prominent Polish-American geophysicist renowned for his pioneering work in seismology and the structure of the Earth's interior.

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Adam Marian Dziewonski 1

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instanceOf Polish American
academic
geophysicist
human
seismologist
awardReceived Gold Medal of the Royal Astronomical Society
Harry Fielding Reid Medal
Inge Lehmann Medal
Order of Polonia Restituta
Vetlesen Prize
William Bowie Medal
citizenship Poland
United States of America
coDeveloperOf Preliminary Reference Earth Model
countryOfBirth Poland
countryOfDeath United States of America
dateOfBirth 1936-11-15
dateOfDeath 2016-03-01
educatedAt Polish Academy of Sciences
University of Warsaw
employer Harvard University
familyName Dziewonski
fieldOfWork Earth sciences
geophysics
seismology
gender male
givenName Adam
knownFor PREM (Preliminary Reference Earth Model)
development of seismic tomography
global seismology
studies of the structure of the Earth’s interior
languageSpoken English
Polish
memberOf American Academy of Arts and Sciences
National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
Polish Academy of Sciences
name Adam Marian Dziewonski
linked to: Adam Dziewonski
nativeLanguage Polish
notableStudent Barbara Romanowicz
placeOfBirth Lwów
placeOfDeath Cambridge, Massachusetts
positionHeld Professor of Geophysics at Harvard University
researchInterest Earth’s core
Earth’s mantle
linked to: Earth's mantle

global seismic networks
seismic wave propagation
residence Cambridge, Massachusetts
workplace Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Harvard University

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William Bowie Medal notableRecipient Adam Dziewonski
Maurice Ewing Medal hasRecipient Adam Dziewonski
Adam Dziewonski name Adam Marian Dziewonski
linked to: Adam Dziewonski