John Shepherd (scientist)
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| Born | John Graham Shepherd 24 August 1946 Croydon, United Kingdom |
| Residence | Fordingbridge, England |
| Nationality | British |
| Fields | Physical oceanographer |
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| Alma mater | University of Cambridge (BA, PhD) |
| Thesis | The proximity effect in superconducting/normal sandwiches (1971) |
| Doctoral advisor | Brian Pippard |
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John Graham Shepherd (born 1946)CBE FRS is a British Earth system scientist, Emeritus Professor at University of Southampton, and a former director of the National Oceanography Centre, Southampton. He has worked on a wide range of environment-related topics, including the transport of chemical tracers in the atmospheric boundary layer and in the deep ocean, the management of marine , and the dynamics of the Earth system. More recently he led a comprehensive review of geoengineering for the Royal Society.
Shepherd was born in 1946 in Croydon in south London, and attended Dr Challoner's Grammar School, a grammar school in Amersham, Buckinghamshire. He studied Natural Sciences at Pembroke College, Cambridge, initially taking physics, mathematics, chemistry and crystallography before specialising and graduating in theoretical physics in 1967. He remained at Cambridge for doctoral studies in the Cavendish Laboratory supervised by Brian Pippard on superconductivity. He completed his doctorate in 1971 with a thesis on superconductivity. During his time at Cambridge, Shepherd also competed for Pembroke College on the British quiz show University Challenge as part of a team that included the Australian essayist, Clive James.
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