Background
Cox was born in Birmingham, England, where his father was a university lecturer in chemistry.
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Keith Cox
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After wartime evacuation to Canada, Cox attended King Edward"s School, Birmingham and Leeds Grammar School. He completed national service in the Royal Engineers between 1950 and 1952.
Career
He had a particular interest in flood basalts and was regarded as one of the leading experts in this area. He then took a scholarship to The Queen"s College, Oxford, where he obtained a first-class degree in geology in 1956. He lost an eye in an accident in the Lake District whilst on a field trip in 1955.
After Oxford, Cox carried out further research at the University of Leeds before being appointed lecturer in petrology at Edinburgh University.
In 1972 he became a lecturer in geology at Oxford, being appointed a fellow of Jesus College, Oxford in 1973. He was appointed a Reader in 1988, the same year in which he became a Fellow of the Royal Society.
He made several trips to South Africa and collaborated with local geochemists such as Doctor A.J. Erlank. He drowned in a sailing accident at Erraid off the Isle of Mull in the Hebrides on 27 August 1998.
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Royal Society.
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British