| Robert Ladislav Parker | |
| Birth Date: | 1942 2, df=y |
| Fields: | Geophysicist and Mathematician |
| Education: | University of Cambridge, UK |
| Thesis Title: | Geophysical Studies in Electromagnetic Induction [1] |
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| Thesis Year: | 1966 |
| Doctoral Advisor: | Edward Bullard |
| Known For: | Geophysical Inverse Theory |
| Awards: | John Adam Fleming Medal[2] Gold Medal of the Royal Astronomical Society[3] Fellow, Royal Society of London[4] |
| Spouse: | Florence Monica Dirac [5] |
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Robert L. Parker is an American geophysicist and mathematician, currently holding a Professor Emeritus of Geophysics position at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography at the University of California, San Diego in La Jolla, California.
After completing a B.A. in Natural Sciences in 1963, M.A. in 1964, and Ph.D. in 1966 in Geophysics at Downing College, Cambridge in England,[6] Parker moved to the U.S. to work at the Institute of Geophysics and Planetary Physics (IGPP). He has subsequently built on work by Freeman Gilbert and George Backus regarding inverse theory and is a world-renowned expert on the general subject of inverse theory, having written one of the authoritative books on the subject: Geophysical Inverse Theory .[7] He is a former director of IGPP.
Parker is an avid bicyclist and keeps track of all of his miles.[8] He has also written about the energy behind bicycle physics.[9]