Roger Powell FRS, (born 14 June 1949) is a British-born Australian based educator and academic. He is

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professor in the School of

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s at the

University of Melbourne The University of Melbourne is a public research university located in Melbourne, Australia. Founded in 1853, it is Australia's second oldest university and the oldest in Victoria. Its main campus is located in Parkville, an inner suburb n ...

Education

Powell was educated at Durham University where he was awarded a Bachelor of Science degree in 1970. He went on to study at the

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where he was awarded a Doctor of Philosophy degree in 1973 for research on mineral equilibria in the

schist Schist ( ) is a medium-grained metamorphic rock showing pronounced schistosity. This means that the rock is composed of mineral grains easily seen with a low-power hand lens, oriented in such a way that the rock is easily split into thin flakes ...

rock near Fort William, Scotland supervised by Stephen W. Richardson.

Awards and honours

Powell was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS) in 2015. His nomination reads: Powell, along with

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of Cambridge University developed a widely used thermodynamic database for minerals and developed the THERMOCALC software to undertake calculations on geological material. The software and database are housed on the THERMOCALC website. Powell was also elected a Fellow of the

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in 2006. He was awarded the Mineralogical Society of Great Britain's Schlumberger Award in 2007, the Norman L. Bowen Award in 2009 and the Barrow Award in 2021.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Powell, Roger Living people Fellows of the Royal Society Fellows of the Australian Academy of Science 1949 births Alumni of Durham University