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1922 – 5 December 1995) was a British physicist whose paleomagnetic reconstruction of the relative motions of

Europe and America revived the theory of continental drift and was a major contribution to plate tectonics. Runcorn was born in Southport, Lancashire, and educated at King George V Grammar School and Gonville and

Caius College, Cambridge, whence he graduated in engineering within

two years in 1942. After a period in radar research

during the World War II, he joined the Physics Department at the University of Manchester where

he did research on aspects of the Earth's magnetic field, taking his PhD for

research supervised by Patrick Blackett in 1949. Runcorn's PhD led to his

interest in palaeomagnetism, the study of the

magnetism of rocks, which he pursued first at the Geophysics Department at

the University of Cambridge and

later at Newcastle University,

where he was appointed to the chair of Physics in 1956. At Newcastle, Runcorn

developed a strong research group in geophysics, and made substantial contributions to various

fields, including convection in the Earth and Moon, the shape and magnetic

fields of the Moon and core, changes in the length of the day, polar wandering, continental drift and plate tectonics. After his retirement in 1988 he continued to

be active in various lines of research until his untimely death in San Diego in

1995.