Strangway, David W., 1934-2016

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الاسم الرئيس (باللاتينية)

Strangway, David W., 1934-2016

صِيَغ اسمية أخرى

Strangway, D. W. (David W.), 1934-2016

تاريخ الميلاد

1934-06-07

تاريخ الوفاة

2016-12-13

مهنة

College administrators

College presidents

College teachers

Geophysicists

النوع الاجتماعي

male

MARC

أرقام تعريفية أخرى

VIAF: 92670568

Wikidata: Q5240134

Library of congress: n 81103601

مصادر المعلومات

Amicus database, 10 February 2017(authorized access point: Strangway, D. W.; variant access point: Strangway, David W., 1934- )
Canada. Governor General. Honours Recipients database, viewed 10 February 2017(David W. Strangway, O.C., Ph.D., D.Sc., F.R.S.C., P.Eng; Kelowna, British Columbia; Officer of the Order of Canada, awarded on May 9, 1996, invested on February 26, 1997; President of the University of British Columbia, he is internationally respected as an outstanding scientist and senior academic administrator. Guided by his exemplary leadership, the university has emerged as one of our major national institutions. Throughout his distinguished career in the field of exploration geophysics, including the Apollo missions, his contributions as a researcher, teacher and author have been of the highest calibre; deceased on December 14, 2016)
Environmental innovation in China, c2012:t.p. (David Strangway, University of British Columbia, Canada) cover (D. Strangway)
Globe and mail, 11 January 2017, online, viewed 10 February 2017(Dr. David Strangway, an esteemed geophysicist who later became a towering figure in Canadian academia, died of heart failure on Dec. 13 in Kelowna, B.C.; born on June 7, 1934, in Simcoe, Ontario, spending his childhood in Angola with his medical missionary parents; completed his studies at the University of Toronto in 1960; was president of the University of Toronto before spending 12 years as president of the University of British Columbia)
His History of the earth's magnetic field, 1970.
The Continental crust and its mineral deposits, 1980:t.p. (D. W. Strangway)
Vancouver sun, 14 December 2016, online, viewed 10 February 2017(David Strangway, who led two top Canadian universities through expansion programs before founding the first private secular university in Canada, has died at age 82; born in Angola in 1932 to Canadian missionary parents; president of the University of B.C. for 12 years between 1985 and 1997; created Quest University Canada with a liberal-arts focus)
Wikipedia website, 25 September 2012(David William Strangway, born 7 June 1934, Canadian geophysicist and university administrator)
Wikipedia, viewed 10 February 2017:David Strangway (David William Strangway, OC FRSC; Canadian geophysicist and university administrator; born 7 June 1934, Simcoe, Ontario; studied at the University of Toronto, earning a B.A. in Physics and Geology in 1956, an M.A. in physics, and a Ph.D in physics in 1960; worked as Assistant Professor of Geology at the University of Colorado (1961-1964) and Assistant Professor of Geophysics at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (1965-1968), before becoming Chief of the Geophysics Branch at NASA responsibility for geophysical aspects of the Apollo missions in 1970 and the director of the Lunar Science Institute in 1973; served as Vice-President and Chair of the Geology Department of the University of Toronto (1973-1983), as President of the University of Toronto (1983-1985), as president of the University of British Columbia (1985-1997), and as president and chief executive officer of the Canada Foundation for Innovation (1998-2004); founded Quest University Canada, serving as its first president and first chancellor; author or co-author of more than 165 research papers; made an Officer of the Order of Canada in 1996; died 13 December 2016, Vancouver, B.C.)