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'Dan McKenzie', CH, FRS (''b.'' 1942) is a Professor of Geophysics at Cambridge University, and one-time head of the Bullard Laboratories.
He was a graduate student of Edward Bullard. He wrote seminal papers on plate tectonics. His more recent work includes papers on mantle convection and melt generation, the stretching of sedimentary basins, and the use of first principle modelling in continental deformation.
He is a Fellow of the Royal Society, and won the Crafoord Prize in 2002. In 2003 Professor McKenzie was appointed to the Order of the Companions of Honour by Queen Elizabeth II, having previously declined a knighthood.