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Christensen, Nikolas Ivan was born on April 11, 1937 in Madison, Wisconsin, United States. Son of Ivan Rudolph and Alice Evelyn (Ethen) Christensen.
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Nikolas Ivan Christensen
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Nikolas Ivan Christensen, American Geophysicist, educator. Research on nature of Earth's interior. National Science Foundation grantee, 1968-1998. Fellow Geological Society American (chairman geophysics division 1984-1986, associate editorGeology 1985-1989, George P. Woollard award 1996), American Geophysical Union (associate editor Journal Geophysical Research since 1998).
Education
Bachelor of Science, University of Wisconsin, 1959; Master of Science, University of Wisconsin, 1961; Doctor of Philosophy, University of Wisconsin, 1963.
Career
Research fellow in geophysics, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1963-1964;
assistant professor geological science, University of Southern California, 1964-1966;
professor, U. Washington, Seattle, 1966-1983;
professor, Purdue University, Lafayette, Indiana, 1983-1997;
Weeks distinguished professor, University of Wisconsin, Madison, since 1997. Member Pacific advisory panel Joint Oceanographic Institutions for Deep Earth Sampling, Seattle, 1973-1975, member igneous and metamorphic petrology panel, 1973-1975, member ocean crust panel, 1974-1977. Member of advisory panel on oceanography National Science Foundation, 1976-1978, member of advisory panel on earth science 1994-1997.
Member of advisory panel on continental lithosphere National Research Council, 1979-1983. Member of advisory panel International Association Geodesy, 1980-1988.
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Membership
Fellow Geological Society American (chairman geophysics division 1984-1986, associate editorGeology 1985-1989, George P. Woollard award 1996), American Geophysical Union (associate editor Journal Geophysical Research since 1998).
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Married Karen Mary Luberg, June 18, 1960. Children— Kirk Nathan, Signe Kay.
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