Nicholas John Shackleton
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Nicholas John Shackleton is a geologist specialising in the Quaternary Period. He is a Professor in the Department of Earth Sciences at the University of Cambridge, working in the Godwin Institute for Quaternary Research. His studies have included an investigation of historic climate change based on an analysis of glacial ice.
He also has a fine collection of early clarinets and other woodwind instruments, which he plays and studies.
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Awards
- Fellow of the Royal Society
- Wollaston Medal in 1996
- Knighted in 1998
- Crafoord Prize, 1995 jointly with Willi Dansgaard
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External links
- Nicholas Shackleton (http://www.giqr.group.cam.ac.uk/about/history/directors/shackleton.html)
