Bernard Wood
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Bernard John Wood FRS is a British geophysicist, and Research Professor, at Oxford University. He is a Fellow of the American Geophysical Union
American Geophysical Union
The American Geophysical Union is a nonprofit organization of geophysicists, consisting of over 50,000 members from over 135 countries. AGU's activities are focused on the organization and dissemination of scientific information in the interdisciplinary and international field of geophysics...

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Life

He earned a BSc from the University of London
University of London
-20th century:Shortly after 6 Burlington Gardens was vacated, the University went through a period of rapid expansion. Bedford College, Royal Holloway and the London School of Economics all joined in 1900, Regent's Park College, which had affiliated in 1841 became an official divinity school of the...

 in 1967, an MSc from the University of Leeds
University of Leeds
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 in 1968, and a PhD in Geophysics from the University of Newcastle-upon-Tyne in 1972.

He has taught at the University of Manchester
University of Manchester
The University of Manchester is a public research university located in Manchester, United Kingdom. It is a "red brick" university and a member of the Russell Group of research-intensive British universities and the N8 Group...

, Northwestern University
Northwestern University
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, and University of Bristol
University of Bristol
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. He was a Federation Fellow at Macquarie University
Macquarie University
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