Education
Originally from New Zealand, he received his Doctor of Philosophy from Cornell University in physics, where he proposed a model for the interior of Jupiter.
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He is well known for applying fluid mechanics and magnetohydrodynamics to understand the internal structure and evolution of planets and moons. Stevenson"s tongue-in-cheek idea about sending a probe into the earth includes the use of nuclear weapons to crack the Earth"s crust, simultaneously melting and filling the crack with molten iron containing a probe. The iron, by the action of its weight, will propagate a crack into the mantle and would subsequently sink and reach the Earth"s core in weeks.
This idea was used in the book Artemis Fowl: The Opal Deception.
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Membership
Royal Society; National Academy of Sciences]
He is a fellow of the Royal Society and a member of the National Academy of Sciences.
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United States New Zealand