| 1945 |
Born Jane Ann Lunn in Woodville, Derbyshire
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Educated at Ashby Grammar School
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| 1963 |
Went to Liverpool University to study geology
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| 1967 |
Graduated with first class honours in geology and the prize for the best degree in her year
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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
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| 1977 |
PhD from Leicester University on "Regional Geochemical mapping in Great Britain with particular reference to sources of error"
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| 1983 |
Special Merit Promation at BGS
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| 1985 |
Received the Murchison Fund of the Geological Society
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| 1988–89 |
During a sabbatical from BGS she was Vice President at Middleton Exploration
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| 1995 |
Co-leadership of the International Geological Correlation Programme (IGCP) Project 360 – Global Geochemical Baselines
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| 1997 |
Awarded CBE
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| 1999-2005 |
Royal Commission on Environmental Pollution
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| 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.
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| 2000 |
Fellowship of the Royal Society of Arts
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| 2000 |
Chair of Geochemistry,Imperial College
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| 2001-2002 |
First woman President of the Institution of Mining and Metallurgy
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| 2002 |
became first female Chief Scientist at BGS
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| 2005 |
Fellowship of the Royal Society of Medicine
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| 2005 |
Left BGS to become Anglo-American Professor of Geochemistry at Imperial College
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| 2016 |
Died at home, in Richmond upon Thames
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