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'''Sir Nicholas John Shackleton''' {{postnominals|country=GBR|FRS}}<ref name="frs"/> (23 June 1937 – 24 January 2006) was an English geologist and ] who specialised in the ] Period.<ref>{{Cite journal | last1 = Tzedakis | first1 = C. | title = Professor Sir Nicholas J. Shackleton, FRS (1937–2006) | doi = 10.1016/j.quascirev.2006.02.008 | journal = Quaternary Science Reviews | volume = 25 | issue = 5–6 | pages = 403–416 | year = 2006 |bibcode = 2006QSRv...25..403T | doi-access = free }}</ref> He was the son of the distinguished field geologist ] and great-nephew of the explorer ].<ref>{{Cite news |last=Brozan |first=Nadine |date=12 February 2006 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2006/02/12/science/12shackleton.html |title=Sir Nicholas Shackleton, Geologist, Is Dead at 68 |work=]}}</ref>


==Education and employment==
'''Sir Nicholas John Shackleton''' ] (] ]—] ]) was a ] ] and ] who specialised in the ] Period. He was the great-nephew of the explorer ] and the son of the noted geologist ].


Educated at ] (thanks to the generosity of a person he called his "fairy godmother" as she paid his school fees) Shackleton went on to read ] at ]. He graduated with the Bachelor of Arts degree in 1961, promoted in 1964 to ]. In 1967 Cambridge awarded him a PhD degree, for a thesis entitled "The Measurement of Paleotemperatures in the Quaternary Era".
He earned a ] in physics and a ] in geochemistry from ], ]. He spent his entire career there, eventually becoming a Professor in the ], working in the ].


Apart from periods abroad as Visiting Professor or Research Associate, Shackleton's entire scientific career was spent at Cambridge. He became Ad hominem Professor in 1991, in the ], working in the ].
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==Paleoceanography==
Shackleton was a key figure in the field of ], and was a pioneer in the use of ] to determine changes in climate as recorded in the ] composition of calcareous microfossils. He also found evidence that the earth's last magnetic field reversal was 780,000 years ago. He is probably best known for his contribution to the "Hays, Imbrie and Shackleton" paper in <i>Science</i> in 1976 which, using ocean sediment cores, demonstrated that oscillations in climate over the past few million years could be correlated with variations in the orbital and positional relationship between the Earth and the Sun (see ]s).


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Much of Shackleton's later work focused on constructing precise timescales based on matching the periodic cycles in deep-sea sediment cores to calculations of incoming sunlight at particular latitudes over geological time, a method which allows a far greater level of stratigraphic precision than other dating methods, and also helped to clarify the rates and mechanisms of aspects of climate change.


Shackleton was a key figure in the field of ], publishing over two hundred scientific papers. He was a pioneer in the use of ] to determine changes in climate as recorded in the ] composition of calcareous microfossils.<ref>{{Cite journal | last1 = Shackleton | first1 = N. | author-link = Nicholas Shackleton| doi = 10.1016/0033-5894(73)90052-5 | title = Oxygen isotope and palaeomagnetic stratigraphy of Equatorial Pacific core V28-238: Oxygen isotope temperatures and ice volumes on a 105 year and 106 year scale*1 | journal = Quaternary Research | volume = 3 | issue = 1 | pages = 39–00 | year = 1973 | bibcode = 1973QuRes...3...39S| s2cid = 128746997 }}</ref> Shackleton also found evidence that the Earth's last magnetic field reversal was 780,000 years ago. He became internationally known, in 1976, with the publication of a paper, with James Hays and John Imbrie, in ''Science'' entitled "Variations in the Earth's orbit: Pacemaker of the ice ages".<ref>{{Cite journal | last1 = Hays | first1 = J. D. | author-link1 = James D. Hays| last2 = Imbrie | first2 = J. | author-link2 = John Imbrie| last3 = Shackleton | first3 = N. J. | author-link3 = Nicholas Shackleton| doi = 10.1126/science.194.4270.1121 | title = Variations in the Earth's Orbit: Pacemaker of the Ice Ages | journal = ]| volume = 194 | issue = 4270 | pages = 1121–1132 | year = 1976 | pmid = 17790893| bibcode = 1976Sci...194.1121H| s2cid = 667291 }}</ref> Using ] cores, Shackleton, Hays and Imbrie demonstrated that oscillations in climate over the past few million years could be correlated with variations in the orbital and positional relationship between the Earth and the Sun (see ]s).
In September 2000 he published an innovative study of the relationship between the oxygen isotope record of the oceans and isotope records obtained from the ice in Antarctica (glacial effect). This helped to pin down the relative contribution of deep water temperature changes and ice volume changes to the marine isotopic record, and also highlighted the close interdependency between carbon dioxide levels and temperature change over the last 400,000 years.


Much of Shackleton's later work focused on constructing precise timescales based on matching the periodic cycles in deep-sea sediment cores to calculations of incoming sunlight at particular latitudes over geological time. This method allows a far greater level of stratigraphic precision than other dating methods, and has also helped to clarify the rates and mechanisms of aspects of climate change.
In 1995 became the director of the Godwin Institute of Quaternary Research. In 1998, he was knighted for his contributions to science. From 1999 to 2003 he was president of the ] (INQUA). He also had a fine collection of early ]s and other ] instruments, which he played and studied.


In September 2000 Shackleton published an innovative study of the relationship between the oxygen isotope record of the oceans and isotope records obtained from the ice in Antarctica (glacial effect). This helped to identify the relative contribution of deep water temperature changes and ice volume changes to the marine isotopic record, and also highlighted the close interdependency between carbon dioxide levels and temperature change over the last 400,000 years.
== Awards ==


In 1995 Shackleton became Director of the Godwin Institute for Quaternary Research. In 1998 he was knighted for his services to earth sciences. From 1999 to 2003 he was president of the ] (INQUA). In 2010 Nick Shackleton was one of ten scientists depicted on a set of postage stamps, in commemoration of the 350th anniversary of the ]. Shackleton was chosen to represent ].
* Fellow of the ] since 1985

* ] (1995) jointly with ]
The ] quinquennially awards a ] medal named in his honour for work in climatology.
* ] (1996)

* Knighted in 1998
==Clarinet==
* Milankovitch Medal (1999)

* Vetlesen Prize (2004)
Shackleton was also a skilled amateur clarinet player, and collector of woodwind instruments. During his lifetime he amassed a large collection of clarinets and related instruments. His Cambridge home became a place of pilgrimage for many players and scholars. Shackleton was internationally known as an organologist, reflected in his many journal articles, as well as his contributions to the 1980 and 2001 editions of '']'', as well as the Grove Dictionary of Musical Instruments. Most of Shackleton's substantial instrument collection, numbering over 700 instruments, was bequeathed to the ] together with an endowment. Part of the collection is now exhibited at the Reid Concert Hall, as part of Edinburgh University's Collection of Historic Musical Instruments. The collection has been described in a published catalogue .
* Blue Planet Prize (2005)

In addition to his reputation in the scientific world, Shackleton was highly respected by many musicians, and a friend to many who studied at Cambridge, including ] who lodged with him for several years. The fine copies, by Cambridge maker Daniel Bangham, of many clarinets in Shackleton's collection, had a significant impact on historical performance from the 1980s, and continue to be used by leading performers today.

==Personal life==
From 1986 to 2002, Shackleton was married to ], a linguistic scholar.<ref name="Vivien ODNB">{{cite ODNB|last1=Hüllen|first1=Werner|title=Law, Vivien Anne, Lady Shackleton (1954–2002)|url=http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/76847|accessdate=7 November 2016|date=January 2010|doi=10.1093/ref:odnb/76847}}</ref>

==Awards==
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*] (ScD), University of Cambridge 1984
*Fellow of the ] (FRS) 1985<ref name="frs"/>
*Francis P. Shepard Medal for marine geology (SEPM) 1985
*Carus Medal, Deutsche Akademie für Naturforscher 'Leopoldina' 1985
*], ] 1987
*Founding member, ] 1988
*Fellow, ] 1990
*] (] Canada) 1990
*], ] 1995
*Honorary Doctor of Laws, ] Canada 1996
*], Geological Society of London 1996<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.geolsoc.org.uk/gsl/null/lang/en/page750.html|title=Wollaston Medal|work=Award Winners since 1831|publisher=]|access-date=25 February 2009|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100819015708/http://www.geolsoc.org.uk/gsl/null/lang/en/page750.html|archive-date=19 August 2010}}</ref>
*Honorary Doctor of Philosophy, ] 1997
*Knighthood for services to the earth sciences in 1998
*], ] 1999<ref>{{cite web |url= https://www.egu.eu/awards-medals/milutin-milankovic/ |title= EGU – Awards & medals – Milutin Milankovic Medal |author=<!--Not stated--> |publisher= European Geosciences Union |access-date= 18 May 2018 }}</ref>
*Foreign Associate, ] 2000
*Foreign Member, ], 2001<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.dwc.knaw.nl/biografie/pmknaw/?pagetype=authorDetail&aId=PE00002970 |title=Nicholas John Shackleton (1937–2006) |language=nl |publisher=Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences |access-date=17 July 2015}}</ref>
*Honorary Doctorate, Geology, ], Italy, 2002
*], ] 2002
*Honorary member, ] 2003
*], 2003
*], ] 2003
*], ] of Columbia University 2004
*Fellow of the ] 2004
*], ] 2005
*Blue Planet Prize, Asahi Glass Foundation, Japan 2005
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== References == == References ==
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*Brozan, Nadine (February 12, 2006). '']''


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British geologist (1937–2006)

SirNicholas ShackletonFRS
Born(1937-06-23)23 June 1937
Died24 January 2006(2006-01-24) (aged 68)
NationalityBritish
Known forQuaternary Period
AwardsFellow of the Royal Society
Lyell Medal (1987)
Wollaston Medal (1996)
Urey Medal (2003)
Vetlesen Prize (2004)
Blue Planet Prize (2005)
Scientific career
FieldsGeology

Sir Nicholas John Shackleton FRS (23 June 1937 – 24 January 2006) was an English geologist and paleoclimatologist who specialised in the Quaternary Period. He was the son of the distinguished field geologist Robert Millner Shackleton and great-nephew of the explorer Ernest Shackleton.

Education and employment

Educated at Cranbrook School, Kent (thanks to the generosity of a person he called his "fairy godmother" as she paid his school fees) Shackleton went on to read natural sciences at Clare College, Cambridge. He graduated with the Bachelor of Arts degree in 1961, promoted in 1964 to Master of Arts. In 1967 Cambridge awarded him a PhD degree, for a thesis entitled "The Measurement of Paleotemperatures in the Quaternary Era".

Apart from periods abroad as Visiting Professor or Research Associate, Shackleton's entire scientific career was spent at Cambridge. He became Ad hominem Professor in 1991, in the Department of Earth Sciences, working in the Godwin Institute for Quaternary Research.

Paleoceanography

The Glacial effect describes the change of the oxygen isotope composition of sea water, due to growing ice sheets in high latitudes during glacials.

Shackleton was a key figure in the field of paleoceanography, publishing over two hundred scientific papers. He was a pioneer in the use of mass spectrometry to determine changes in climate as recorded in the oxygen isotope composition of calcareous microfossils. Shackleton also found evidence that the Earth's last magnetic field reversal was 780,000 years ago. He became internationally known, in 1976, with the publication of a paper, with James Hays and John Imbrie, in Science entitled "Variations in the Earth's orbit: Pacemaker of the ice ages". Using ocean sediment cores, Shackleton, Hays and Imbrie demonstrated that oscillations in climate over the past few million years could be correlated with variations in the orbital and positional relationship between the Earth and the Sun (see Milankovitch cycles).

Much of Shackleton's later work focused on constructing precise timescales based on matching the periodic cycles in deep-sea sediment cores to calculations of incoming sunlight at particular latitudes over geological time. This method allows a far greater level of stratigraphic precision than other dating methods, and has also helped to clarify the rates and mechanisms of aspects of climate change.

In September 2000 Shackleton published an innovative study of the relationship between the oxygen isotope record of the oceans and isotope records obtained from the ice in Antarctica (glacial effect). This helped to identify the relative contribution of deep water temperature changes and ice volume changes to the marine isotopic record, and also highlighted the close interdependency between carbon dioxide levels and temperature change over the last 400,000 years.

In 1995 Shackleton became Director of the Godwin Institute for Quaternary Research. In 1998 he was knighted for his services to earth sciences. From 1999 to 2003 he was president of the International Union for Quaternary Research (INQUA). In 2010 Nick Shackleton was one of ten scientists depicted on a set of postage stamps, in commemoration of the 350th anniversary of the Royal Society. Shackleton was chosen to represent Earth Science.

The European Association of Geochemistry quinquennially awards a Science Innovation Award medal named in his honour for work in climatology.

Clarinet

Shackleton was also a skilled amateur clarinet player, and collector of woodwind instruments. During his lifetime he amassed a large collection of clarinets and related instruments. His Cambridge home became a place of pilgrimage for many players and scholars. Shackleton was internationally known as an organologist, reflected in his many journal articles, as well as his contributions to the 1980 and 2001 editions of The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, as well as the Grove Dictionary of Musical Instruments. Most of Shackleton's substantial instrument collection, numbering over 700 instruments, was bequeathed to the University of Edinburgh together with an endowment. Part of the collection is now exhibited at the Reid Concert Hall, as part of Edinburgh University's Collection of Historic Musical Instruments. The collection has been described in a published catalogue .

In addition to his reputation in the scientific world, Shackleton was highly respected by many musicians, and a friend to many who studied at Cambridge, including Christopher Hogwood who lodged with him for several years. The fine copies, by Cambridge maker Daniel Bangham, of many clarinets in Shackleton's collection, had a significant impact on historical performance from the 1980s, and continue to be used by leading performers today.

Personal life

From 1986 to 2002, Shackleton was married to Vivien Law, a linguistic scholar.

Awards

References

  1. ^ McCave, I. N.; Elderfield, H. (2011). "Sir Nicholas John Shackleton. 23 June 1937 – 24 January 2006". Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society. 57: 435–462. doi:10.1098/rsbm.2011.0005. S2CID 71330012.
  2. Tzedakis, C. (2006). "Professor Sir Nicholas J. Shackleton, FRS (1937–2006)". Quaternary Science Reviews. 25 (5–6): 403–416. Bibcode:2006QSRv...25..403T. doi:10.1016/j.quascirev.2006.02.008.
  3. Brozan, Nadine (12 February 2006). "Sir Nicholas Shackleton, Geologist, Is Dead at 68". New York Times.
  4. Shackleton, N. (1973). "Oxygen isotope and palaeomagnetic stratigraphy of Equatorial Pacific core V28-238: Oxygen isotope temperatures and ice volumes on a 105 year and 106 year scale*1". Quaternary Research. 3 (1): 39–00. Bibcode:1973QuRes...3...39S. doi:10.1016/0033-5894(73)90052-5. S2CID 128746997.
  5. Hays, J. D.; Imbrie, J.; Shackleton, N. J. (1976). "Variations in the Earth's Orbit: Pacemaker of the Ice Ages". Science. 194 (4270): 1121–1132. Bibcode:1976Sci...194.1121H. doi:10.1126/science.194.4270.1121. PMID 17790893. S2CID 667291.
  6. Hüllen, Werner (January 2010). "Law, Vivien Anne, Lady Shackleton (1954–2002)". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/76847. Retrieved 7 November 2016. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
  7. "Wollaston Medal". Award Winners since 1831. Geological Society of London. Archived from the original on 19 August 2010. Retrieved 25 February 2009.
  8. "EGU – Awards & medals – Milutin Milankovic Medal". European Geosciences Union. Retrieved 18 May 2018.
  9. "Nicholas John Shackleton (1937–2006)" (in Dutch). Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences. Retrieved 17 July 2015.

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