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American seismologist
Thorne Lay (born 1956) is an American seismologist .[1] He was born in Casper, Wyoming in 1956, and raised in El Paso, Texas . He is a professor of earth and planetary sciences at the University of California, Santa Cruz .[2]
Education [ edit ]
Lay received a B.S. from the University of Rochester in 1978, a M.S. from the California Institute of Technology in 1980, and a Ph.D. also from California Institute of Technology, in 1983. [3]
Awards and academic honors [ edit ]
USTC Distinguished Lecture Series in Earth and Space Sciences, 2015[3]
IRIS/SSA Distinguished Lecturer, 2015
Star on the Mountain Award, City of El Paso, Texas, 2015
Fessinger-Springer Memorial Lecture, University of Texas El Paso, 2015
Honorary Professor, Xi'an Jiaotong University, 2014
Inge Lehmann Medal, American Geophysical Union, 2014
Harry Fielding Reid Medal, Seismological Society of America, 2014
Elected Member, National Academy of Sciences, 2014
Gutenberg Lecturer of Seismology Section, American Geophysical Union, 2011
Elected Fellow, American Association for the Advancement of Science, 2009
Elected Fellow, American Academy of Arts and Sciences, 2008
Lifetime National Associate of the National Academies of Science 2002
Taiwan National Research Council Visiting Senior Scholar, 1997
Japan Society for Promotion of Science Visiting Scholar, 1992
Fellow, American Geophysical Union, 1991
Macelwane Medal, American Geophysical Union, 1991
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