Professor Jane Ann Plant CBE (1945-2016): Difference between revisions
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Timeline
1945 | Born Jane Ann Lunn in Woodville, Derbyshire |
Educated at Ashby Grammar School | |
1963 | Went to Liverpool University to study geology |
1967 | Graduated with first class honours in geology and the prize for the best degree in her year |
Joined the Institute of Geological Sciences Atomic Energy Division (now the British Geological Survey - BGS) Took a leading role developing the BGS Geochemical Baseline of the Environment (G-BASE) programme which which mapped the distribution of different chemical elements on the land surface | |
1977 | PhD from Leicester University on "Regional Geochemical mapping in Great Britain with particular reference to sources of error" |
1983 | Special Merit Promation at BGS |
1985 | Received the Murchison Fund of the Geological Society |
1988–89 | During a sabbatical from BGS she was Vice President at Middleton Exploration |
1995 | Co-leadership of the International Geological Correlation Programme (IGCP) Project 360 – Global Geochemical Baselines |
1997 | Awarded CBE |
1999-2005 | Royal Commission on Environmental Pollution |
2000 | Wrote book 'Your Life in your Hands' about her experiences with cancer since 1897 and her firm beliefs of a link between cancer and diet. Further books followed. |
2000 | Fellowship of the Royal Society of Arts |
2000 | Chair of Geochemistry,Imperial College |
2001-2002 | First woman President of the Institution of Mining and Metallurgy |
2002 | became first female Chief Scientist at BGS |
2005 | Fellowship of the Royal Society of Medicine |
2005 | Left BGS to become Anglo-American Professor of Geochemistry at Imperial College |
2016 | Died at home, in Richmond upon Thames |