- John Suppe
John Suppe is an American geologist, Professor of
Geology atNational Taiwan University andPrinceton University .He received at B.A. from the
University of California, Riverside (1965), and a Ph.D. fromYale University (1969). He joined the Princeton faculty in 1971, and was the chairman of the Department of Geology from 1991 to 1993. He transferred to emeritus status, and moved to Taiwan where he became a Distinguished Chair Research Professor at theNational Taiwan University in 2007. ["Princeton Weekly Bulletin," Oct. 22, 2007 [http://www.princeton.edu/pr/pwb] ]Suppe's research specialties are
structural geology andtectonics , and he is best known for his work on "fault-related folding" theories with his two classical papers "Geometry and kinematics of fault-bend folding" and "Geometry and kinematics of fault-propagation folding" [ [http://geoweb.princeton.edu/people/faculty/suppe/pubs.html Geosciences People ] ] . Additionally, Suppe is also well known for his extensive work on the formation of mountain belts with examples from California, Taiwan, and China.Suppe has been former visiting professor at the
National Taiwan University , theCalifornia Institute of Technology ,Barcelona University , andMunich University . Furthermore he was aNASA Guest Investigator for the analysis of the Venus images from the Magellan mission.Among his awards and honors, he received the Best Publication Award in Structural Geology and Tectonics from the
Geological Society of America in 1986 and 1996, the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation research prize in 2006, the Wilbur Lucius Cross Medal from the Yale Graduate School in 2007 and the Career Contribution Award in Structural Geology and Tectonics from theGeological Society of America in 2008. Suppe has been a member of theUnited States National Academy of Sciences since 1995.John Suppe is also a Christian who has written on the relationship of science and religion in articles like "Thoughts on the Epistemology of Christianity in Light of Science." [ [http://www.wheaton.edu/ACG/essays/suppe3.html Affiliation of Christian Geologists] ]
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