Background
Huppert was born on November 26, 1943 in Sydney, Australia; the son of Leo and Alice (Neuman) Huppert.
Huppert was born on November 26, 1943 in Sydney, Australia; the son of Leo and Alice (Neuman) Huppert.
Huppert received a Bachelor of Science degree from the University of Sydney in 1964. A year later he graduated from Australian National University with a Master of Science degree.
Also in 1966 Herbert earned his Master of Science degree and a Doctor of Philosophy degree in 1968 from the University of California. Three years later he received his Master of Arts degree and a Doctor of Science degree in 1985 from the University of Cambridge.
Huppert began his career as an assistant director research at the University of Cambridge in 1970. Eleven years later he took a position of a lecturer and a reader of geophysical dynamics in 1988 at the same university. Since 1989 he has been a professor of theoretical geophysics at the University of Cambridge. Also Herbert worked as a professor of mathematics at the University of New South Wales from 1991 to 1996.
He was a visiting scientist at Australia National University, University of California in San Diego, Canterbury University, California Technology Institute, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, University of New South Wales, University of Sydney, Tata Institute of Mumbai, University of Western Austalia, Weizmann Institute and at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute.
Huppert is the author of 100 papers on fluid motions associated with the atmosphere, oceans and volcanoes. In 2005, he was the only non-American recipient of a prize from the United States National Academy of Sciences, being awarded the Arthur L. Day Prize and Lectureship for contributions to the Earth sciences.
Huppert was on the Council of the Royal Society in 2001–2003 and a chairman of the European Academies Science Advisory Committee Working Group. He is a member of the American Geophysical Union, the American Physical Society and the Academia Europaea.
On April 20, 1966 Herbert Huppert married Felicia Adina Ferster. They have 2 children.