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Michael Rochester
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The category of professor emeritus is open only to retired members of the faculty. To be eligible, a person must have served at least 10 years as a regular full-time faculty member at Memorial and must have held the rank of professor upon retirement. The prime criterion for nomination is sustained, outstanding scholarly work and/or service to the university.
At Memorial's Fall Convocation 2000, Michael Rochester, Earth Sciences, was named professor emeritus. He taught at Memorial, in the Departments of Physics and Earth Sciences, from 1967 until his retirement in1998. He received a BA in applied mathematics (1954) an MA in physics (1956) from the University of Toronto, and a PhD in physics (1959) from the University of Utah.
Before coming to Memorial, he held faculty appointments in physics at the universities of Toronto and Waterloo. During his career, he taught over 40 different courses in physics and geophysics, nearly half of them courses he developed. He was elected Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada in 1983, and was honoured with the Tuzo Wilson Medal by the Canadian Geophysical Union in 1986.Memorial awarded him the rank of University Research Professor in 1986 and the Distinguished Scholar Medal in Science in 1995.
His ongoing research, funded by the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council for the past 40 years, is in theoretical global geodynamics. His special interest is in the mathematical modelling of waves in the Earth's liquid iron core (our planet's "third ocean"). Core waves are associated with small changes in the Earth's rotation and gravity, with the after-effects of great earthquakes, and with the generation of the Earth's magnetic field.
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