Donald Fraser (geology)

Donald Fraser (geology)

Professor Donald Gordon Fraser is Professor of Earth Sciences at Oxford University, a Tutorial Fellow at Worcester College, Oxford, and currently holds the office of Senior Proctor [cite web | title=Key University Officers | url=http://www.ox.ac.uk/about_the_university/oxford_people/key_university_officers/index.html | accessdate = 2008-04-20 ] within the University.

He works on the origin of biological chirality, the development of early biomolecules and the origin of life. He is an opponent of Vice-Chancellor Dr John Hood's proposal for Governance reform in Oxford.cite news | last=Addley | first=Esther | title=Unquiet flows the dons' debate when reform of Oxford is on the agenda | publisher=Guardian | date=2006-11-15 | url=http://education.guardian.co.uk/administration/story/0,,1947942,00.html | accessdate=2007-05-12 ] He has been Chairman of the Faculty of Physical Sciences and in 2006 was elected unopposed as a member of the University's governing Council.cite web | title=Uncontested Elections 23 November | url=http://www.admin.ox.ac.uk/elections/pastelect/mt06/231106/nominations/uncontested231106.shtml | accessdate = 2007-05-10 ]

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* [http://www.earth.ox.ac.uk/~don/don_profile1.htm Home Page]


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