Martin Bott

Martin Harold Phillips Bott (12 July 1926 – 20 October 2018) was a British geologist and Professor in the Department of Earth Sciences at the University of Durham, England.

Education Bott was educated at Clayesmore School in Dorset and Magdalene College, Cambridge, where he was awarded a Master of Arts degree and PhD.

Career Bott worked throughout his academic career at the University of Durham. In 1954 he started as Turner & Newall Research Fellow. In 1956 he received an appointment as lecturer in geophysics, was promoted to Reader in Geophysics in 1963 and in 1966 appointed Professor of Geophysics. and in the eastern Alps. In the late 1950s he began studies on the mechanism of geological disturbances,

In the 1960s Bott published papers on the use of digital computation methods for solving geophysical problems and further work on the structure of the crust, regional geophysical studies in England and Ireland. In the early 1970s he published his textbook The Interior of the Earth, in which he summarised the current knowledge about the structure of the earth. South Greenland and the Lesser Antilles. Even after his retirement, he remained true to his research and published numerous scientific papers and books.

Awards and honours Bott was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS) in 1976, His nomination for the Royal Society reads:

Personal life Bott was a vice-president of Christians in Science.

He died on 20 October 2018 at the age of 92.